Carl Jung Research Paper
Describe & Evaluate
Carl Jung’s Theory
(26 July 1875 – 6 June 1961),
concerning personality types
and show how they might
usefully help a therapist
to determine therapeutic goals
Introduction
In this essay I aim to demonstrate an understanding of Jung’s personality types by describing and evaluating his theory and to show how they might be useful in helping a therapist to determine therapeutic goals. I have for evaluation purposes compared other theories and critics of his work.
“Personality
Can be defined as a dynamic and organised set of characteristics possessed by a person that uniquely influences his or her cognitions, motivations,and behaviourism in various situations (Ryckman 2004).
Carl Jung’s …show more content…
The personal unconscious is a reservoir of experience unique to each individual consisting of perceptions, thoughts, feelings and memories that have been put to one side or repressed but not always covered by sea and therefore can be reclaimed. Whereas the personal unconscious is unique to every individual, the collective unconscious is shared or “transpersonal” and consists of certain potentialities that we all share because of our human nature, because we all live in groups and in some form of society or family life. He believed that the collective unconscious did not develop individually but was inherited and consisted of pre- existent forms, the archetypes. An archetype is a universal thought form or predisposition to respond to the world in certain ways and is crucial to Jung’s concept of the collective unconscious because it emphasises potentialities in which we may express our humanness. He believed that they appeared to us in dreams, art, ritual, myths and symptoms.
Jung suggested that people tend to develop two functions, usually one rational function Jung suggested that people tend to develop two functions, usually one Rational functionand one Irrational function. There are four basic ways, or psychological functions which are thinking, feeling, sensation or intuition; one of these becomes the primary or dominant function and the other the auxiliary function. (See Figure 3) on next page. …show more content…
Although in todays world we have such tools as MRI’s and other techniques to help people see that their unconscious worries are unfounded, I still think that counseling and cognitive therapy can/may be appropriate. The therapeutic goal of Jungian therapy is to help the client reconcile unbalanced aspects of their personality which present in a number of differing ways
Carl Jung’s Theory
(26 July 1875 – 6 June 1961),
concerning personality types
and show how they might
usefully help a therapist
to determine therapeutic goals
Introduction
In this essay I aim to demonstrate an understanding of Jung’s personality types by describing and evaluating his theory and to show how they might be useful in helping a therapist to determine therapeutic goals. I have for evaluation purposes compared other theories and critics of his work.
“Personality
Can be defined as a dynamic and organised set of characteristics possessed by a person that uniquely influences his or her cognitions, motivations,and behaviourism in various situations (Ryckman 2004).
Carl Jung’s …show more content…
The personal unconscious is a reservoir of experience unique to each individual consisting of perceptions, thoughts, feelings and memories that have been put to one side or repressed but not always covered by sea and therefore can be reclaimed. Whereas the personal unconscious is unique to every individual, the collective unconscious is shared or “transpersonal” and consists of certain potentialities that we all share because of our human nature, because we all live in groups and in some form of society or family life. He believed that the collective unconscious did not develop individually but was inherited and consisted of pre- existent forms, the archetypes. An archetype is a universal thought form or predisposition to respond to the world in certain ways and is crucial to Jung’s concept of the collective unconscious because it emphasises potentialities in which we may express our humanness. He believed that they appeared to us in dreams, art, ritual, myths and symptoms.
Jung suggested that people tend to develop two functions, usually one rational function Jung suggested that people tend to develop two functions, usually one Rational functionand one Irrational function. There are four basic ways, or psychological functions which are thinking, feeling, sensation or intuition; one of these becomes the primary or dominant function and the other the auxiliary function. (See Figure 3) on next page. …show more content…
Although in todays world we have such tools as MRI’s and other techniques to help people see that their unconscious worries are unfounded, I still think that counseling and cognitive therapy can/may be appropriate. The therapeutic goal of Jungian therapy is to help the client reconcile unbalanced aspects of their personality which present in a number of differing ways