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Re: Are Jung's methods used? Absolutely.

Posted by Cindy W on June 1, 2000, at 10:02:54

In reply to Are Jung's methods used? Absolutely., posted by allisonm on May 29, 2000, at 13:32:02

> > > Do psychiatrist use any of these methods today anyway?
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> To echo Shar, absolutely. I'm seeing a therapist now who uses Jung's theories, which is why I started this thread.
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> I have been doing a fair amount of reading on Jung. Some things ring true, some I find interesting, other things seem archaic, but I understand the time in which they were written. At this point, what my therapist is introducing is making some sense and I'm willing and interested in continuing as well as trying to educate myself more on the larger picture.
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> There is a C.G. Jung page: http://www.cgjung.com/
> And there is a Jung Foundation that publishes books, many of which are available through Shambhala Book Publishers (www.shambhala.com). I've found one of Shambhala's books, A Guide Tour of the Collected Works of C.G. Jung by Robert Hopcke, quite helpful. Hopcke breaks down Jung's theories and terms into easily-digested bites, written in common language, and lists further readings should the reader want to know more. It's a good primer.
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> Currently I am reading a book titled Archetypal Dimensions of the Psyche, by Marie-Louise von Franz, who worked closely with Jung from 1934 until his death in 1961. The book discusses myths, fairy tales, dreams and visions and their relationship to the collective psyche.
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> Clarissa Pinkola Estes is a Jungian analyst and storyteller. The tape Shar refers to is one in a series of audiotapes called the Jungian Storyteller Series. Warming the Stone Child dwells on the unmothered. There are others: The Wild Woman Archetype, on the instinctual nature of women, In the House of the Riddle Mother, on common archetypal motifs in women's dreams, etc. On and off over the last 8 months or so I have tried to read Pinkola-Estes' book "Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype." My psychiatrist introduced it to me. I've not heard her tapes but I don't care much for Pinkola-Estes' writing (very repetitive, kind of over-the-top enthusiastic, at least for cynical me). Von Franz does a better job of explaining myths and fairy tales as they relate to the collective in more of a straightforward way.

Enjoyed posts on this thread. At the recent conference I went to (Evolution of Psychotherapy), there was discussion of Jungian concepts. What really impressed me though was Ericksonian psychotherapy, about which I knew nothing before the conference.--Cindy W


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