Jung's Methods in Psychotherapy Jung's method in psychotherapy follows
the Freud's one, as he often admitted. In rare cases, in which Freudian approach of the psyche is not sufficient, Jung would apply also other methods that should guide the patient to a personal confrontation with the
collective unconscious, with archetypes. This confrontation aims at the assimilation of archetypal images, in short, the individuation, an extensive process that leads to the realization of a psychic totality
that includes equally the conscious and the unconscious. In common terms, it is all about an extension of the conscious mind which includes the archetypal materials.
The main methods of Jungian therapy are: Free Associations Test
Test used in psychotherapeutic treatment that consists of recording the average response time to
certain stimulus-words. The patient is asked to answer to the inducted words pronounced by the analyst with any word that comes to his mind. The response time can be an indicator of the constellated unconscious
complexes.
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Dream Analysis
Up to a point, it follows Freud's method: free associations, subject level, retrospective interpretation. Jung added several new concepts:
amplification of dream content, the idea that the dream is a compensation of ego's unilateral attitude and the idea of the oneiric message's finality. Learn more...
Active Imagination
Let all the things flow. Let inner fantasies
flow freely but not as a detached and contemplative viewer, nor as a psychotherapist, but as an actor that takes part in the fantasies, that plays a role in them. The fantasies are products of the unconscious and must
be fully integrated in our conscious mind. Learn more... Symbol Analysis
It aims at the integration of the
unconscious psyche and the extension of conscious. Learn more.
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