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 and its 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 wholeness
that includes a conjunction of the conscious and the unconscious. In common terms, it is all about an extension of the conscious mind, which includes the archetypal materials pointing to basic requires of the complete psyche.
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 activated unconscious complexes.
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Dream Analysis
Up to a point, Jung's dream interpretation method follows the Freud's one including the free associations, subject level, retrospective interpretation
. But he later added several new concepts, such as amplification of dream content, the idea that the dream brings a compensation
to the one-sided individual ego, and its finality that aims at the the psychic wholeness. 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. [coming soon] Symbol Analysis
It aims at the integration of the
unconscious contents and the extension of conscious mind. Learn more.
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