Jungian Analytical Psychology

Jungian Analytical Psychology

Introduction

This paper focuses on the Jungian analytical psychology and the way in which it is being used today. Furthermore, the use of Jungian personality concepts, collective unconscious, and self help has also been discussed.

Discussion

Jungian analytical psychology originates from ideas of Carl Jung, who was a Swiss psychiatrist. His orientation was further advances through his students who followed the tradition that was set by him. Although there are some similarities, however, they are different from the Freudian psychoanalysis, which aims to integrate the forces that are unconscious and motivate human behavior. Jung saw the psyche as mind; however, he has also admitted the mystery of soul that exists, and the significance of dreams (Stickgold, 2009).

According to Kuiken Study, which deals with the question about the relationship between dreams and active imagination, the dream is also a gateway to the subconscious active imagination. Modern research of the natural sciences, particularly physics opens, even the critical, doubting spirit that will improve our world view. The internal perception of the images that arise from the unconscious is significant for the external reality. Exterior and interior to match. The knowledge was in all the major cultures of people start to look at their initiation because access to this other; the conscious mind is not accessible dimensions. It drove them to yearn for the own origin, the meaning of life, the question of "Where" and "Where". CG Jung has met in his deep psychological research beyond the conscious experience of this holistic dimension. That consciousness cannot grasp it, but only partially learned, for example, in symbols, dreams and imaginations. He called them "the self", the core, which, as we are created, completely and comprehensively with all our powers as part of the whole. Consciously experienced the small "I", the ego, is not identical to, the experience of the self in different ways and only gradual approach, to avoid being overwhelmed by it (Speigelman, 2007).

Active Imagination is not a passive exercise in a trance-like state, no fantasy trip, but rather active waking dreams visualization techniques similar to those of the Tibetans. This holistic event in the inner drama reveals the practitioner opportunities, contradictions, confronted him in his previous self-image with the borders of his conscious self and the infinity of the cosmos - in him.

Like all psychotherapy focused on trauma, EMDR from an observation shared by all: the simple evocation of the trauma is repeated at each visit is inadequate and even dangerous in that it can cause a survictimisation memory capacity of the scene and thus worsen the patient's symptomatology. EMDR is offered as a secure protocol to accompany the patient when he recalls the traumatic nucleus. For indeed, seeking the recall not only the intellect and the verbal but all sensory channels, emotions, cognitions. We will pass quickly on the theory of the interest of EMDR as an analogy to rapid eye movement sleep (REM) to retain only the most recent cognitive hypotheses that consider the end state of ...