Psychodynamic approaches - Jung Flashcards
Describe Jung’s Attitude types
-They are based on habitual direction of interests; extraversion and introversion
-Extroversion refers to external objects. being sociable
-Introversion refers to the inner world, being reserved and hesitant
Describe Jung’s function types
-They are a way of classifying personality
-Based on individuals preferred mode of mental processing; thinking and feeling (rational) and sensation and intuition (irrational)
-Everyone has all 4 functions but 2 are more well developed, and other 2 remain unconscious
What does ‘thinking’ refer to?
Using reflective cognitive style of thought
What does ‘feeling’ refer to?
Values arising from feelings within
What does ‘sensation’ refer to?
Drawing information from senses
What does ‘intuition’ refer to?
Basing decisions off insights and intuitions
Describe the goals of Jungian therapy
-Strengthen consciousness
-Understand own inner being and meaning of life
-Doesn’t remain consistent with medical model
Compare hysteria and schizophrenia
-Hysteria is extreme extraversion where the libido is withdrawn from inner world
-Schizophrenia is extreme introversion, where libido is withdrawn from reality
What is the Jungian therapeutic process
-Individualistic
-2-3 sessions per week, have a break after 10 weeks
-Says that there isn’t a cure and that instead it’s about teaching patients to deal with their struggles
What are the 4 stages of Jungian therapy
(1) Confession - sharing secrets and begin to understand what’s occurring in consciousness
(2) Elucidation - therapist interprets and analyses meaning of what is being said
(3) Education - learning new and adaptive habits, begin to move forward in positive way
(4) Transformation - acceptance of self (however, a small amount of people reach this stage)
What therapeutic techniques are used?
-Analysis of transference
-Active imagination
-Dream analysis (amplification, interpretation, assimilation)
Describe analysis of transference
-Used to understand projections that take place from client to therapist
-Allows therapist to understand what is being said
Describe active imagination
-Get in touch with unconscious material
-Use dream analysis alongside
Describe dream analysis
-Jung suggested that dreams express more details about feelings
-Compares to Freud who said that it acts as a disguise
-Incudes amplification, interpretation and assimilation
State what amplification, interpretation and assimilation mean
-Amplification refers to elaboration of dream images to help create context, can explain association of the item in the dream
-Interpretation refers to keeping record of dreams and what the meaning of the dreams are, so we can look further into repeated dreams
-Assimilation refers to when the client and the therapist make conscious sense of what the dream is telling them
