Techniques of analytic psychology
Four Stages of Jungian Treatment
1. Catharsis and emotional cleaning: clients begin to understand their pasts but do not want to relive them
2. Elucidation: clients work through the childhood origins of their emotional difficulties, unrealistic thoughts and fantasies
3. Education: remedy any gaps in development; the clinician is supporting and encouraging, helping people to improve their lives by learning to take risks
4. Transformation: occurs when people have achieved an in-depth access to the collective unconscious and the archetypes; emergence of the Self and greater balance.
Interventions
Focus on conscious, building therapeutic alliance, and laying groundwork for exploration of the unconscious
1. Catharsis and emotional cleaning: clients begin to understand their pasts but do not want to relive them
2. Elucidation: clients work through the childhood origins of their emotional difficulties, unrealistic thoughts and fantasies
3. Education: remedy any gaps in development; the clinician is supporting and encouraging, helping people to improve their lives by learning to take risks
4. Transformation: occurs when people have achieved an in-depth access to the collective unconscious and the archetypes; emergence of the Self and greater balance.
Interventions
Focus on conscious, building therapeutic alliance, and laying groundwork for exploration of the unconscious
- Use of symbols: thinking symbolically and seeing underlying dynamics and patterns that drive feelings and actions
- Dream interpretation: gain access to the unconscious; a reflection of one's inner life and unconscious responses; represented wishes, fears, memories, experiences, and more
- Word association tests: reading off single words and the client replies with the first word that comes to mind; also used to explore meanings of dreams
- Rituals: found importance in religious and secular rituals and included them into therapy
(Seligman & Reichenberg, 2014, p.93)