John Denboer PhD has extensive experience and vast knowledge in the field of psychology, which he uses to help people, especially at-risk youths in the juvenile system. In the past few months, John has started a series of blogs in which he shares the many things he knows about psychology.
For this blog, John Denboer PhD takes a closer look at analytic psychology and what patients can gain from it.
Analytic psychology started with world-famous psych-analyst Carl Jung. The Jungian school of thought, while similar to the Freudian approach in terms of recognizing the significance of the inner psyche, differed in various ways.
Practitioners of analytic psychology pay a lot of attention to the unconscious, believing that any act of a person depends on what is inside their psyche. According to Jung’s teachings, there are three parts to the psyche. They are the conscious, personal unconscious, and the collective unconscious. How a person sees the world and experiences life depends on the factors affecting these three parts.
Treatments based on analytic psychology tackle more than a single factor at a time, allowing for patients to discover and rediscover parts of themselves that they may never know existed. And in learning more about who they are, why they feel the things they feel, why they do the things they do, and more, John Denboer PhD explains, patients become stronger as they understand themselves more.
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