Evaluate Carl Jung's Theory

Karen Aldrich MaidsS514 Year Two Module Three Tutor Name Jacqueline Smith Words 2554 Describe and evaluate Carl Jungs theory concerning personality types and show how they might usefully help a therapist to determine therapeutic goals. Introduction For this essay we were asked to describe and evaluate Carl Jungs theory concerning personality types and how these theories might help a therapist to determine therapeutic goals. I first want to try and understand a little about this man. He was born Carl Gustav Jung on 26th July 1875 in Switzerland. He was the only Son of a church evangelical minister. According to my research Jung was a strange gloomy child who played his own imaginary games, alone, for the first nine years of his life. Eight of Jungs Uncles were in the clergy as was
This vision was followed, in the next few weeks, by dreams of eternal winters and rivers of blood. He was afraid that he was becoming psychotic. Jung carefully recorded his dreams, fantasies, and visions, he drew and painted and sculptured them as well. Jung dreamt a great deal about the dead, the land of the dead and the rising of the dead. These represented the unconscious itself. Critics have claimed that Jung was very simply ill when all this happened. But Jung felt that, if you want to understand the jungle, you cannot be content just to sail back and forth near the shore. You have got to get into it not matter how strange and frightening it may seem. Jung believed that a person is basically an introvert or an extrovert. He believed that extroverts and introverts will see things in a very different way and this can cause confusion and misunderstanding. Two people looking at the same situation will see quite different things. Jung believed that extroversion and introversion are both present in each person. One is conscious and dominant whilst the other is unconscious and inferior. For example, if the ego is predominantly