| The personality... desires to evolve out
of its unconscious conditions and to experience itself as a whole.
C.G. Jung
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Psychotherapy Those who turn to psychotherapy often do so because we feel stuck and not fully 'in' our own lives. Life isn't flowing or moving as we feel it should. We want and need more. Psychoanalysis doesn’t need to start with a crisis or mental illness. It is valuable for almost anyone as a way of self-discovery. Often, the way to psychological work is opened by a weariness with some enduring situation or condition – some pattern of unfulfilling behaviour – which prompts a person to desire to change and to begin analysis. Psychological work usually begins by becoming aware of unconscious patterns shaping and limiting the way we are in the world. In Jungian analysis, a session will often focus on the person’s current situation, with analyst and client working together with the unconscious material coming from the client’s dreams. This is done to try to understand, in depth, the person’s relationship to his or her situation, and thereby hopefully uncover the way to healing, wholeness and meaningfulness. This is what is meant by 'analysis'. |
