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” Introduction In this essay I aim to demonstrate an understanding of Jung’s theory of personality types by looking at the characteristics of the attitudes and functions and how these can be related to psychological disturbance. I will be describing and evaluating his theory and how it might be useful in helping a therapist to determine therapeutic goals. I will then conclude my findings. Jung’s model is concerned with the movement of the psychic energy and the way in which an individual habitually or preferentially positions one’s self in the world. Used responsibly, it is a precious guide to our dominant psychological disposition, the way we mostly are. It also reveals, by interpretation, the way we mostly aren't. Jung believed that we are born with our personalities, and they are developed (a personality is a combination of characteristics or qualities that form an individual’s distinctive character) Daryl Sharp (1980) “Jung believed that type differentiation begins very early, "so early that in some cases one must speak of it as innate:" Daryl Sharp (1980) p.g 39.He believed that we perhaps have more than one personality, the one which we are all familiar with on the outside which society wants us to adhere to and then another one, which is rather the shadow side – the one we would rather not talk about. He also believed that two children from the same family may be of opposite types. Ultimately it must be the child’s disposition which decides whether one will belong to this or that type. He believed the type ‘antithesis’ was due to some unconscious, instinctive cause, for which there was likely a biological foundation. Jung differentiated types according to their general attitude. He defined
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