Jung

Jung

1. What was he interested in?

   • best known of the pioneers of psychotherapy
   • more interested in future (Freud past)
   • liked psychological nature in myths, dreams and culture

2. Word association test

   • identifying your complexes ( thoughts, feeling etc) through central themes
   • identify these complexes through tests

3. Art therapy

   • children will benefit as they don't have the vocal to express what they are saying
   • people who don't want to communicate, or can't will benefit
   • good way to understand what the problem is

4. Structural Theory differences between him and Freud

   • he called the total personality the psyche
   • the structure
     • ego
       • described as being the unifying force of the psyche at the centre of consciousness
       • contains conscious thoughts and feelings related to your own behaviour
     • personal unconscious
       • next to ego and contains all our personal experiences that have blocked from our awareness
       • this is because they are unacceptable in some way
       • contains repressed material
     • collective unconscious
       • lies deeper within psyche
       • identifies that hallucinations, dreams and schizophrenia were very similar
       • darkness, illness, death, morning, isolation
       • more significant than personal unconscious
     • archetypes
       • universal themes or symbols that lie with the collective unconscious psyche
       • example
         • when someone is stressed, they look up to God as he is powerful
           • exert influences
       • he says they come into the world to make us realise what things are
         • e.g. mother ( love, looks after, feeds)

5. nature of analysis

   • encounter between individuals
   • didn't see it as a cure, more about individualisation
   • process of maturing for therapy

6. Personality types

   • he added two additional personality traits
     • extraversion
       • one that focuses more on the external world
       • "an outgoing, candid and accomendatig nature"
       • 4 types
         • sensing
         • thinking
         • feeling
         • intuitive
     • introversion
       • contrast
       • more internally orientated
       • " a hesitant, reflective nature, keeps themselves to themselves"
       • 4 types
         • sensing
         • thinking
         • feeling
         • intuitive
   • stated that not one person is wholly one type, bit of both
   • Myers-Briggs Type indicator
     • based on Jung's 8 types
     • popular applications
       • occupational
       • vocational
       • management
   • one function is always more popular, therefore the other side is least developed

7. Stages of therapy

   • confession
     • recognising problem
   • elucidation
     • recognising something has to be done
   • education
     • with therapist, understanding what can be done
   • transformation
     • achieve balance and self realisation
       • fulfilling own potential
       • not about cure, about managing and understanding and accept ourselves

8. synchronicity

   • meaningful coincidence
     • talking about someone who you haven't seen in ages, then you receive a phone call from them
   • two events occur independently
     • but only in combination do they have meaning to the person
   • collective UCS was found

9. persona and shadow

   • show the world, then hid from it
   • persona
     • conscious
     • mask or role we adopt to make us deal with people
   • shadow
     • unconscious
     • hidden side

10. mid-life

    • important to Jung
    • aspect of transformation
    • childhood
      • survival and sexual activities
    • young adulthood
      • leaning a vocation, family, community life
    • middle age
      • transforms energetic person to cultural

11. research techniques

    • word association
    • view that humans are born with predispositions to respond to world in certain way