Chapter 4: Jung and the Practice of Analytical Psychotherapy

Question 1

Jung’s Birthplace

Answer 1

Kesswil, Switzerland

Question 2

Jung’s Family

Answer 2

Has a sister 9 years younger

Question 3

Jung’s Mother

Answer 3

Housewife, became ill and had to be away for a significant period while Jung was 3

Question 4

Jung’s Father

Answer 4

Clergyman, invested in his son’s intellectual development

Question 5

Jung’s Mentors

Answer 5

Eugene Bleuler & Pierre Janet

Question 6

Jung’s wife

Answer 6

Emma Rauschenbach, had 4 daughters and 1 son

Question 7

Jung’s Overarching Emphasis

Answer 7

The great potential and creative energy residing within individuals and society

Question 8

Unconscious

Answer 8

Source of great peril and wisdon to be approached respectfully and with a listening attitude; vast pool of forces, motives, predispositions, and energy in our psyches that is, at any given time, unavailable to our conscious mind but, when sought, can offer balance and health

Question 9

Jungian Analytical Psychotherapy

Answer 9

Attempt to create by means of symbolic approach a dialectical relationship between consciousness and the unconscious

Question 10

Entities of the Unconscious

Answer 10

Personal Unconscious

Collective Unconscious

Question 11

Personal Unconscious

Answer 11

Particular to each individual and is material that was once conscious; contains information that has been forgotten or repressed but that might be made conscious again, under the right circumstances; includes dreams and fantasies

Question 12

Collective Unconscious

Answer 12

Shared pool of motives, urges, fears, and potentialities that we inherit by being human; larger than personal unconscious. universally shared by all members of the human race. dreams and fantasies contain impersonal material that seems unrelated to personal experience emanate from this

Question 13

Complexes

Answer 13

Challenging obstacles; As diverse as human experiences;

Question 14

Archetypes

Answer 14

Can be seen as a great deal of energy which can be accessed in the right circumstances, should the valences be correct; takes the form of circumstances and individual propensities to match up

Question 15

Persona

Answer 15

Archetype that takes and/or changes form where situation meets person; enables us to hold our inner selves together while interacting with the diverse distractions, temptations, provocations, and invitations the world offers us; The mask we wear, or the set of behaviors we engage in to accomplish what is expected in a given relationship; in reality what one is not, but which oneself as well as others think one is

Question 16

Shadow

Answer 16

Aspect of our psyche we have either never known or have repressed; contains aspects of ourselves that we’ve been unable to accept; compensatory, on in direct, reciprocal relationship with the persona; needs to be understood and embraced

Question 17

Anima and Animus

Answer 17

Feminine and Masculine principles present in all humans; an imprint, an archetype of all the ancestral experiences of the female or male, a deposit of all impressions ever made by a woman or a man

Question 18

Self

Answer 18

Central, organizing archetype, the archetype of awareness of being; Internal embodiment of all wisdom and truth; helps us get connected with the spiritual around us

Question 19

Personality Types

Answer 19

Extraversion

Introversion

Question 20

Extraversion

Answer 20

An orientation to the outer world of people, things, and activities; characterized by an outgoing, candid, and accommodating nature that adapts easily to a given situation, quickly forms attachments, and setting aside any possible misgivings, will often venture forth with careless confidence into unknown situations

Question 21

Introversion

Answer 21

An orientation to the inner world of concepts, ideas, and internal experience; characterized by a hestitant, reflective, retiring nature that keeps itself to itself, shrinks from objects, is always lightly defensive and prefers to hide behind mistrustful scrutiny

Question 22

Function of Attitudes

Answer 22

Sensing
Feeling
Intuiting
Thinking

Question 23

Perceiving Functions

Answer 23

Sensation - function that notices the real world around us and establishes the fact that something exists
Intuition - function that guesses or surmises the origins and direction of things and ideas

Question 24

Rational Functions

Answer 24

Thinking- not influenced by values or concerns about well being
Feeling - informed by an assessment of values and the potential impact of choices on individuals and groups of people

Question 25

Myers-Briggs Type Indicator

Answer 25

Standardized psychological assessment questionaire; Added judging and perceiving attitudes or orientations

Question 26

Judging Attitude

Answer 26

use thinking or feeling when interacting with others; person who prefers a judging function desires to reach conclusions quickly and efficiently

Question 27

Perceiving Attitude

Answer 27

Involves the habitual use of the perceiving functions, sensing or intuiting when dealing with the outside world; cope well with interruptions and diversions from a given plan

Question 28

Jungian Psychopathology

Answer 28

Individuals seeks counseling because they are summoned by their unconscious; People seek help due to a vague, unspecified happiness or discontent;

Question 29

Healthy Jungian Trajectory for Human Life

Answer 29

Toward individuation and transformation throughout life;

Question 30

Journey Toward Individuation

Answer 30

Inner journey toward completeness, or authenticity, and it takes shape at the beginning of the second half of life

Question 31

Steps towards the Journey toward Individuation

Answer 31

Persona and Authenticity
Making Peace with the Dark Side
Integrating the Anima and the Animus
Transcendence, Wholeness, and Fully Conscious Living

Question 32

Persona and Authenticity

Answer 32

Dropping more obvious facades and striving to be genuinely ourselves, no matter what the social demands might be. Who am I, really? Deep down, at my core, who am I? When all the fluff and posturing and superficial masks are taken away, who am I?

Question 33

Making Peace With the Dark Side

Answer 33

Resolving the opposites we embody and to make peace with longings and urges we’ve pushed aside or denied

Question 34

Integrating the Animal Animus

Answer 34

Getting in touch with the opposite-sex archetype each of us embodies; Being comfortably androgynous

Question 35

Transendence, Wholeness, Fully Conscious Living

Answer 35

Moving us toward a spiritually whole place where one encounters, welcomes, and brings to full consciousness the God Within, the Wise Old Man, or the Great Mother; Self is consciously honored leading to a teanscendent sense of self-actualization, or psychic wholeness

Question 36

Jungian Therapy

Answer 36

Assisted conversation between the client’s conscious and unconsicous on a symbolic level through the dream; Pay attention to life’s irrational irritations, attractions, fears, and joys, believing that there is a rich symbolic information contained therein

Question 37

Sychronicity

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Coincidences, or non-controlled happenings that matched up with other happenings, or needs, and resulted in an answer, or in new knowledge

Question 38

Clients of Jungian Therapy

Answer 38

Need to keep dream journals and write down other impressions that come to them during the week; ongoing assessment of archetypal manifestations and conflicts reflected in the client’s dreams and life struggles;

Question 39

Trusting the Dream

Answer 39

Practical Perspective

Spiritual Perspective

Question 40

Practical Perspective

Answer 40

Fostering understanding and reducing interpersonal conflict; use of dreaams to enhance personal growth and highlight important aspects of the dreamer’s life and journey; Dreams had to do with present situations in the dreamer’s life, if meditated upon, the meaning would finally come

Question 41

Guidelines for Jungian Approach to Dream Work

Answer 41

Find a strategy to remember dreams
Know that persona archetypes show themselves in dreams as shelter, coverings, constumes, masks, and other externally defining features of a character
Shadow archetype appears as a character of the same sex as a dreamer but with different values and orientations; disgusting, frightening, tricky or hidden
Opposite sex figures might represent the anima or animus
Self or God like archetype are wise older characters who have something to show or offer the dreamer
Overall theme and emotional valences in the dream will be related to the dreamer’s current life, pay attention to the relationship in the waking world (if dream involves a relationship)
Difficult dream may have a theme to compensate for something in one’s waking life
Insight may be gained by having conversations with characters in the dream
Dreams can be related to one another

Question 42

Spiritual perspective

Answer 42

Dream speaks of religion; It is a basic religious phenomenon and that the voice which speaks in our dreams is not our own but comes from a source transcending us