psychiatry

It is difficult to manipulate without guilt ahead, or without the promise of another prize in front. As always, it’s easy to say, since the hard part is realizing it, catching it. It is like cheating on someone, or the madness, the one affected is the last to know and, best of all, it is […]

The biblical example of the splinter we see in the other’s eye without detecting the beam we carry in our own is the basic lesson of projection. We hate in others and with great intensity that which we do not like about ourselves, but this fits into a «blind spot», we cannot see it. However, […]

When he was presented with an incurable case of alcoholism, Jung could not help but reaffirm his conception of archetypes, and it was from there that he established that the patient could not be healed except through a spiritual experience. The essential question is what prevents normal behaviour? In alcoholism, he saw an anxiety of […]

If we ask ourselves why did John catch a cold? We put the intellect in a slightly different direction than we directed it if we ask ourselves why does man get sick? This is the kind of differentiation that Jung made with the development of his research on the collective unconscious, of course, not so […]

Once a new level of understanding of reality is reached, the difficulty of transmitting it is precisely that it is something new. What we know as «resistance to change», or «fear of change», is nothing more than the result of an education system that does not consider the possibility of new or different points of […]

Having received his doctorate in psychiatry in 1905, Jung became chief medical officer of the University of Zurich’s psychiatric clinic, a position he resigned from in 1909, exhausted from work. Jung’s methodology established involvement with the patient; rather than assuming a position of authority, for Jung the therapist had to let the patient affect him […]