Describe and Evaluate Carl Jung's Theory Concerning Personality Types and Show How They Might Usefully Help a Therapist to Determine Therapeutic Goals
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DESCRIBE AND EVALUATE CARL JUNG'S THEORY CONCERNING PERSONALITY TYPES AND SHOW HOW THEY MIGHT USEFULLY HELP A THERAPIST TO DETERMINE THERAPEUTIC GOALS
Personality can be defined as consistency in a person’s way of being — long-term consistency in their particular ways of perceiving, thinking, acting and reacting as a person. It is organised patterns of thought and feeling and behaviour. People tend to operate in a similar way day after day, year after year. Not specific repetitive actions, but overall patterns, tendencies, inclinations. Someone who has tended to be quiet and reserved up to now will probably still tend to be quiet and reserved tomorrow. It is this general predictability in individuals’ thought patterns, behaviour patterns and emotional patterns which defines personality. Carl Jung's theory of personality types is helpful in determining therapeutic goals as it helps to identify the client's mode of thinking, feeling and perceiving the world around them. Equipped with a background in Freudian theory, and with an apparently inexhaustible knowledge of mythology, religion and philosophy, Carl Jung developed the personality types theory. This essay will evaluate this theory and its application within a counselling setting.
Jung's theory divides the psyche into three parts: the ego, which Jung identifies with the conscious mind; the personal unconscious, which includes anything which is not presently conscious (it includes both memories that are easily brought to mind and those that have been suppressed, but it does not include the instincts that Freud would have it include); and the collective unconscious, your "psychic inheritance", the reservoir of our experiences as a species, a knowledge we are all born with yet we can never be directly conscious of it. It influences all of our experiences and behaviours, most especially the emotional ones, but we only know about it indirectly, by looking at those influences.
Jung called the contents of the...
Personality can be defined as consistency in a person’s way of being — long-term consistency in their particular ways of perceiving, thinking, acting and reacting as a person. It is organised patterns of thought and feeling and behaviour. People tend to operate in a similar way day after day, year after year. Not specific repetitive actions, but overall patterns, tendencies, inclinations. Someone who has tended to be quiet and reserved up to now will probably still tend to be quiet and reserved tomorrow. It is this general predictability in individuals’ thought patterns, behaviour patterns and emotional patterns which defines personality. Carl Jung's theory of personality types is helpful in determining therapeutic goals as it helps to identify the client's mode of thinking, feeling and perceiving the world around them. Equipped with a background in Freudian theory, and with an apparently inexhaustible knowledge of mythology, religion and philosophy, Carl Jung developed the personality types theory. This essay will evaluate this theory and its application within a counselling setting.
Jung's theory divides the psyche into three parts: the ego, which Jung identifies with the conscious mind; the personal unconscious, which includes anything which is not presently conscious (it includes both memories that are easily brought to mind and those that have been suppressed, but it does not include the instincts that Freud would have it include); and the collective unconscious, your "psychic inheritance", the reservoir of our experiences as a species, a knowledge we are all born with yet we can never be directly conscious of it. It influences all of our experiences and behaviours, most especially the emotional ones, but we only know about it indirectly, by looking at those influences.
Jung called the contents of the...