analytical psychology
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or less commonly analytic psychology
: an approach to psychology and psychotherapy that is based on the theories and methods of Carl Gustav Jung and represents a modification of Freudian psychoanalysis which adds to the concept of the personal unconscious a collective unconscious and the process of individuation (see individuation sense 1c) and advocates that psychotherapy be conducted in terms of the patient's present-day conflicts and maladjustments
Carl Jung, the founder of analytical psychology, observed that his least-happy patients were always the most self-absorbed, and the most happy were those most interested in other people and the world around them.—
Gyles Brandreth
Gyles Brandreth… Carl Jung, the father of analytical psychology who had a famous break with Sigmund Freud over the role of the unconscious mind in aberrant behavior.—Jeffrey Mullins
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Carl Jung, the Swiss psychiatrist and the founder of analytical psychology, is credited with theorizing that while people can have complexes, complexes can have people.
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analytical psychology
noun
variants
also analytic psychology
: an approach to psychology and psychotherapy that is based on the theories and methods of C. G. Jung and represents a modification of Freudian psychoanalysis which adds to the concept of the personal unconscious a collective unconscious and the process of individuation (see individuation sense 1) and advocates that psychotherapy be conducted in terms of the patient's present-day conflicts and maladjustments
Jungian psychoanalysts apply the insights of the Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung, who lived from 1875 to 1961 and founded analytical psychology.—Chicago Tribune
Chicago Tribune… Carl Jung, the father of analytical psychology who had a famous break with Sigmund Freud over the role of the unconscious mind in aberrant behavior.—Jeffrey Mullins, Elko (Nevada) Daily Free Press
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