Carl Gustav Jung certainly needs no introduction. His ideas and theories profoundly influenced 20th century psychology, religion, literature and the arts, and remain highly influential today. In the popular mind, he is often characterized as a ‘disciple’ of Freud, yet this is clearly inaccurate. During the intense seven years (1906-1913) that they were friends and colleagues, Jung was already known for his research and writings; for a time, he willingly aligned himself with Freud’s ambitions, but his thinking was always independent. The influence of the dissociation pioneers Pierre Janet and the Swiss psychologist Theodor Flournoy on Jung’s ideas ultimately won out.
Though volumes have been written by Jung and about Jung, here we will focus on only one aspect of his work and life, albeit a most important one – Jung’s role as a pioneer in the field of trauma and dissociation. We will trace his life and work in three areas: 1) Biographical and autobiographical writings focusing particularly on his early life and sense of himself as divided into more than one part, 2) Jung’s concept of the complex, its relation to trauma and dissociation and its influence on Bleuler’s (1911) construct of schizophrenia, and 3) Jung’s view of normal personality as characterized by personality types and as being inherently dissociative, with the concept of archetypes complementing the concept of complexes. This final section will discuss Jung’s views on the Self and the process of individuation, and will include a review of contemporary ‘multi-mind’ theories of personality directly influenced by Jung, such as Hal and Sidra Stone’s Voice Dialogue and Dick Schwartz’s Internal Family Systems therapy.
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Webinar Instructions & Overview
Video Lecture: Jung in context: Bleuler, Janet, Freud & Flournoy
PPT Slides: Jung in Context
Video Lecture: Jung’s word-association task, complexes and Schizophrenia.
PPT Slides: Jung on Schizophrenia and personality types, break with Freud
Video Lecture: Jung on ‘normal’ personality, archetypes and individuation.
PPT Slides: Jung on ‘normal’ personality, archetypes and individuation.
Assessment Component
Andrew Moskowitz, Ph.D. is director of the Forensic Psychology graduate program at George Washington University in Alexandria, Virginia, former president of the European Society for Trauma and Dissociation and a core member of the WHO ICD-11 dissociative disorders diagnoses task force. He is a renowned expert in the trauma/dissociation field, who, for the past 20 years, has used this perspective to inform our understandings of psychosis and violent behavior. As a clinical and forensic psychologist, Dr. Moskowitz has performed therapy and conducted forensic evaluations in the United States, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom, in both prison and forensic mental health settings. As an academic, he has taught undergraduate and graduate psychology and medical students in the United States, New Zealand, Scotland, Denmark and Germany, and was the lead editor of both editions of the influential book Psychosis, Trauma and Dissociation (Wiley, 2008, 2019).
