2023-11-15 14:37:57
Analytical psychology is a branch of psychology developed by the Swiss psychiatrist Carl Gustav Jung. At the moment, there is a new enthusiasm for Jung’s work. Indeed, his books did not receive all the interest they deserved during his lifetime. Maybe he was too ahead of his time. Perhaps it was also due to his conflict with Freud, the father of psychoanalysis. In any case, Jung today fascinates and inspires. Its analytical psychology carries very interesting psychotherapeutic avenues, and at the same time it stimulated the emergence of personal development movements, which are inspired by it and of which we have become fond consumers today.
Difference between psychoanalysis and analytical psychology
Psychoanalysis was founded by the Austrian neurologist Sigmund Freud. It is a revolution in the treatment of human suffering. Finally, we are interested in the person’s experience, in their past, in their injuries, in what the psychosomatic symptom or neurosis says regarding the difficulties they encounter and their genesis. The doctor listens to the patient, and does not just listen for a strictly physiological imbalance. Finally, there are prospects for healing through inner reconciliation, through expression and listening.
Analytical psychology is the work of the Swiss psychiatrist Carl Gustav Jung. Jung was part of the first generation of psychoanalysts, he was Freud’s friend. But following a while, he wanted to go further, and their paths diverged.
Jung’s thesis is that we are not only the fruit of our education, of our surroundings, of what happened to us in childhood, of our wounds and our traumas. We are also each an individual in our own right, and it is this singularity which is ultimately the most important. The work in analytical psychology consists of becoming aware of the different movements that animate our soul. Observe the inner conflicts that tug at us to soothe them. Reconnect ourselves to what we deeply love, to what we intrinsically are, in order to accept our complexity and thus be able to develop our full potential.
The analytical psychology therapist
In analytical psychology the therapist will be called a “Jungian analyst” or “Jungian psychoanalyst”. He has an active listening posture, that is to say he is facing the patient who is seated (and not lying on a couch as in Freudian psychoanalysis). He will be very interested in dreams, which is why to be a Jungian psychoanalyst you must first be trained in oneirology. He first worked on himself for several years and he is still in therapy, because understanding the human soul requires understanding oneself first. The exploration of the psyche in analytical psychology is intended as a fascinating journey in itself.
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