Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. He who looks outside dreams, he who looks inside awakens ~Carl Jung
Jungian Analysis is a specialized form of psychotherapy in which the Jungian analyst and analysand work together to increase the patient's consciousness in order to move toward psychological balance and wholeness, and to bring relief and meaning to psychological suffering. The process can treat a broad range of emotional disorders such as depression and anxiety, and it can also assist anyone who wishes to pursue psychological growth. At the heart of Jungian analysis is a realignment of conscious and unconscious aspects of the personality with an ensuing creation of new values and purpose.
* The goal of analysis is to bring the analysand awareness and understanding of what was formerly unconscious, whereas the aim of therapy is often merely symptom relief.
* Analysis examines motivations in our thoughts and actions that lie beneath conscious awareness to achieve deeper and more long lasting changes in the personality than traditional therapies can effect.
* Analysis focuses on process-what happens within sessions-in addition to content-the inner and outer experiences of our lives.
Jung believed that we develop symptoms when we are stuck in old patterns and fail to integrate creative potentials within our personality. Often such symptoms motivate us to begin analysis. If we do not understand the deeper causes underlying those symptoms and focus merely on their relief, problems are likely to resurface in other ways, such as difficulties in relationships or emotional blocks.
What you are looking for is what is looking.
- St. Francis of Assisi
