What is Analytic Psychology? (Jungian Therapy)

This video describes Analytic Psychology, which is a theory that was developed by Carl Jung and sometimes is referred to as analytic therapy. Carl Jung was a colleague of Freud and he broke with Freud over his vision of personality theory and his vision of what caused and maintained symptoms. Analytic Psychology is a complex therapy and it has a number of parts that are fairly unconventional when compared to other popular theories like cognitive behavioral therapy, reality therapy, and existential therapy. All of those different modalities have components that are a little different between them, however, there are a lot of similarities. Analytic Psychology stands out as being quite a bit different. Carl Jung looked at the ego as how one sees oneself and as self-regulating. Freud looked at the ego as mediating the ID (basic drives and urges) and the Superego (morality and social norms). Carl Jung theorized levels of consciousness. He postulated the existence of the conscious mind, the personal unconscious and the collective unconscious. Carl Jung envisioned the conscious mind as the gatekeeper to consciousness. The personal unconscious contains thoughts, ideas, and memories that were repressed or forgotten. The collective unconscious has concepts that are shared across generations now. Carl Jung did not believe that the collective unconscious was inherited but rather shared. He did believe, however, that there was a predisposition to have certain types of archetypes including the anima, animus, persona, and shadow. Techniques of Jungian therapy include free association, dream analysis, catharsis, the use of art, word association, and the interpretation of transference.