"Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart.
Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes." C. G. Jung
Jungian psychotherapy, also known as analytic psychology, is a psychotherapeutic practice based on the works of C. G. Jung, a Swiss psychiatrist (1875-1961). Some of the familiar Jungian psychological concepts that entered into the mainstream culture of today are extraverted/introverted, archetypes, a complex, a persona, and individuation. His notable psychological theories are also foundational for the development of Alcoholics Anonymous (AA), Myers-Briggs Indicator Types (MBTI), and art therapy.
C.G. Jung was a courageous explorer of the unchartered, complex terrains of human nature. His enduring devotion to appreciate a person in his/ her wholeness of conscious and unconscious dimensions, was largely born of his lifelong struggles to reconcile the inner split of opposites. The profound suffering he experienced and observed both in the processes of his own and his clients guided him to heal the irreconcilable split through the use of symbol-making function, a very distinctive human capacity, to imagine creatively.
One of his most remarkable and enriching contributions by C. G. Jung to the field of psychology is his understanding of human needs to be spiritual and creative through the power of imagination. We not only need food and shelter but also need outlets to express our spirituality and creativity to survive and thrive in the embrace of Mother Nature that can be abundantly giving and all-consuming. The tangible world coexists with the world of the invisible and ephemeral.To bridge these two very different world is through the power of imagination and with a leap of faith to believe there is more to this sometimes very bewildering life.
A maturing process of a person, in Jungian psychology, is called "individuation". It is a psychological process of differentiation to nurture one's authenticity based on his/her unique individual nature. To be individuating signifies a willing and ethical engagement in dialogues with the varied, less familiar aspects of one's personality to the ego consciousness. Its aim is to sort out and reorganizes one's personality structure to reveal the most clear reflection and intention of his/her psyche/soul that is freed from the definition of the collective. The process of individuating is ongoing throughout one's lifetime. It is a cyclical nature of birth and death, beginning and ending. A person is multi-faceted being like a diamond that holds qualities and characteristics that can shine in its most refined state but will be in conflict with one another as one moves through a process living life.
C.G. Jung was a courageous explorer of the unchartered, complex terrains of human nature. His enduring devotion to appreciate a person in his/ her wholeness of conscious and unconscious dimensions, was largely born of his lifelong struggles to reconcile the inner split of opposites. The profound suffering he experienced and observed both in the processes of his own and his clients guided him to heal the irreconcilable split through the use of symbol-making function, a very distinctive human capacity, to imagine creatively.
One of his most remarkable and enriching contributions by C. G. Jung to the field of psychology is his understanding of human needs to be spiritual and creative through the power of imagination. We not only need food and shelter but also need outlets to express our spirituality and creativity to survive and thrive in the embrace of Mother Nature that can be abundantly giving and all-consuming. The tangible world coexists with the world of the invisible and ephemeral.To bridge these two very different world is through the power of imagination and with a leap of faith to believe there is more to this sometimes very bewildering life.
A maturing process of a person, in Jungian psychology, is called "individuation". It is a psychological process of differentiation to nurture one's authenticity based on his/her unique individual nature. To be individuating signifies a willing and ethical engagement in dialogues with the varied, less familiar aspects of one's personality to the ego consciousness. Its aim is to sort out and reorganizes one's personality structure to reveal the most clear reflection and intention of his/her psyche/soul that is freed from the definition of the collective. The process of individuating is ongoing throughout one's lifetime. It is a cyclical nature of birth and death, beginning and ending. A person is multi-faceted being like a diamond that holds qualities and characteristics that can shine in its most refined state but will be in conflict with one another as one moves through a process living life.
"I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become." C.G. Jung
