Master of Analytical Psychology Jung 15

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In 1900, Jung was hired as an assistant at Burgholzli. Burgholzli, a psychiatric clinic at the University of Zurich, was chaired by Eugen Bleuler, one of the most prominent psychiatrists of his time. Jung was soon promoted to deputy director and worked as a lecturer in psychiatry and psychotherapy at the University of Zurich. Burgholzli's patients are predominantly psychopathic, that is, they suffer from severe mental illness. Jung worked here for 9 years, studying a group of diseases then called pro-senile dementia, now called schizophrenia. The mechanistic view holds that these diseases are caused by nerve damage or organic diseases. However, Jung was not satisfied with this view, because it would only allow doctors to make meaningless diagnoses, describe symptoms, or compile statistics. The patient's personality and his or her personality do not seem to matter. But Jung wasn't interested in labeling people, and he soon realized that paranoid thoughts and hallucinations actually contained hidden symbolism, related to personal life stories.

Jung was particularly interested in experimental psychology and did a lot of work using word association tests. This test was originally designed by Sir Francis Galton (1822–19I1) and further developed by William Wundt (1832–1920). Although it is considered somewhat outdated, it is still used, especially in criminal cases. The method is simple: the doctor gives the patient a list of about 100 words, and the patient's response to each word is the first thing he or she thinks of. Measure reaction time with a stopwatch, write down each reaction, and then repeat the entire list, the subject must give the same reaction as the first. False or pronounced delays suggest that subconscious emotions may be at play. Jung found that he could identify what he called a "complex of related reactions." It expresses a set of unconscious ideas, thoughts, and images related to emotions. For example, a person with mixed feelings about money may show uneasiness or distress about words like "buy," "sell," or "money." When an old professor of criminology announced that he did not believe in the validity of these tests, Jung challenged him to try it himself. To his surprise, Jung was soon able to tell him that he had financial worries, fear of dying of a heart attack, and had studied in France a long time ago, where he had a relationship! Jung gathered all the relevant information from the professor's reactions to the words "heart," "death," "pay," and "kiss."

A bunch of complexes are a set of related thoughts that are often suppressed and can lead to emotional problems and conflict.

A bundle of complexes tends to be unconsciously associated with a specific thing or a definite subject.

Our attitudes and behaviors are largely influenced by our personal complexes.

Jung also used a galvanometer, an electronic instrument that measures the conductivity of the skin. It depends on how wet the skin is – when a person feels stressed, the skin becomes damp and the skin is more likely to conduct electricity. Thus, the galvanometer was used as a lie detector, and Jung actually caught a nurse stealing money in this way. He later abandoned the method of using a galvanometer because he found that stress levels were more related to a person's sensitivity to guilt than to true guilt.

Jung was interested in the psychological causes of mental illness. Psychogenic disorders are those disorders that stem from mental states—physiological symptoms are considered secondary, not precipitating.

Now we tend to talk about psychosomatic diseases rather than "psychogenic" diseases. There is a growing recognition that spirit and emotion have a huge impact on many diseases, and that psychology, body and spirit interact on many levels

For Jung, every patient has a story to tell, and that's where treatment should begin. A person's symptoms are often entirely reasonable based on his personal experience, and the problem must be seen from the perspective of the whole person, not from his symptoms alone. Jung began to explore the unconscious psychology of his patients, using word associations, the analysis of dreams, or simply through endless and patient conversation. Jung believes that psychotic symptoms are related to toxic substances circulating in the blood, but he also believes that the patient's energy is being withdrawn from the outside world and concentrated in the inner world, where dreams, myths and fantasies dominate. In 1907, he published his views and observations in the journal Psychology of Progeria, a study that added to his rise to fame in the field of psychiatric research.

At the same time, Freud's new ideas about the unconscious began to be accepted by the scientific community. These views also prove that Jung may be correct in arguing that there are more factors contributing to mental illness than the mechanistic approach assumes. Freud had a theory that unwanted and uncomfortable thoughts were expelled by the conscious brain, a process he called repression. For Jung, this idea seems to be supported by what he found in lexical association experiments. In 19o6, Jung sent a copy to Freud as soon as he published His Lexical Association Studies. Freud was interested and invited Jung to Vienna to meet him. This will be the beginning of a very important relationship between these two great men.