Therapist Style Example: Jung

Here you can see an imaginary profile of Jung.

Comment:

I imagine Jung as a Inquisitive therapist, who allowed space to his clients to express and guide the sessions, an he would offer his comments and interpretations. He is probably more into acceptance than Freud, and a bit more propositive as well, but they would share this results. Jung appears as a Dreamer, as he is focussed on the intensive spaces, and not so much into making things clear, but staying in the metaphors and holding space of a process. He is also an artist in the tradition point, as he always focused on finding his true self more than anything else.

Regarding components he has a much more marked emphasis in the cultural space, and the extended awareness than Freud. Jung participated with many philosophers and academics that where studying anthropology and compared religions. He also put an emphasis into the spiritual and explored many ways of accessing altered states of conciseness. He proposed an individuation process as the core of his therapy, and is his higher score.

Philosophically he is also an hermeneutic, but had a strong spiritual worldview that guided him. He made this more explicit in his work published after death. He also had some hints of participatory, as he saw the perceptions of the world as changing with our own changes.

Profile:

This example shows an hypothetical therapeutic profile, where the first is the care style, the second a disposition of curiosity and interest, and the third the tension between individuation and tradition.

Your current personal Profile:

Inquisitive

Dreamer

Artist

Components

This section shows the main areas of interest and techniques that Jung is interested in. It has five sections of five Components each:

  • Subjective: dedicated to the direct experience of a person
  • Extended Awareness: areas where we need help to access its influence as happens in a more subtle way
  • Context: areas surrounding the person in the experiential field
  • Culture: a more abstract area of the context and the social field
  • Identity: the concerns that make a person develop as such and promote their growth

Subjective

body-30%
feelings-60%
expression-70%
thoughts-30%
narrative-70%

Extended Awareness

dreaming-95%
re_prog-20%
subliminal-80%
subparts-90%
spiritual-95%

Context

relational-60%
systems-10%
setup-20%
transOb-10%
family-20%

Culture

antropology-60%
arts-90%
politics-60%
philosophy-70%
worldview-60%

Identity

individuation-99%
sex_gender-60%
values-20
belonging-40%
roles-20%

Big Traditions

These are the main philosophical traditions behind the psychotherapy. We find sometimes mixes of them, and sub-groups, but they define clear paths relevant today.

This test will help you to recognise your afiliation with some reality assumptions.

hemeneutic-90%
phenomenological-70%
cybernetic-10%
spiritual-95%
scientific-20%
constructive-20%
participatory-70%