Carl Jung
Swiss psychiatrist, analytical psychology founder
Carl Jung was a Swiss psychiatrist who founded analytical psychology and developed ideas such as archetypes and the collective unconscious.
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Swiss Born 1875 in Kesswil, Switzerland Died 1961
About Carl Jung
Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961) was a Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist. He worked as a research scientist in Zurich, at the Burghölzli hospital, with Eugen Bleuler as his superior. He became a friend and correspondent of Sigmund Freud, but their views diverged and they parted ways. Jung then built analytical psychology as a system separate from psychoanalysis. Jung developed concepts including extraversion and introversion, archetypes, the collective unconscious, the complex and synchronicity. He saw individuation, the process of bringing conscious and unconscious parts of the self together, as the main task of human development. The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator was developed from his theory of psychological types. His books include Man and His Symbols and Psychological Types. Many of his works appeared in print only after he died.