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Jung
Theories of Personality
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Psychology
Undergraduate 4
09/27/2012

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Analytical psychology
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emphasizes interplay between oppostional forces within the psyche and how those conflicts affect personality development
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Psyche
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all interacting systems within human personality needed to account for the mental life and behavior of the person
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Libido according to Jung
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general life process energy
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Principle of opposites
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energy comes from conflict
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Principle of equivalence
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energy expended in one part of the psyche will be compensated for by an equal amount of energy in the same or different form in another part of the psyche
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Principle of entropy
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energy is automatically redistributed in the psyche to achieve equilibrium
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Ego according to Jung
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unifying force within the psyche; responsible for our feelings of identity and control; contains conscious thoughts
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Personal unconscious
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forgotten experiences; accessible to consciousness
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Collective unconscious
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storehouse of archaic remnants from humankind's evolutionary past; archetypes
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Archetypes
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universal patterns or predispositions that structre how all humans consciously and unconsciously adapt to their world
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Mandala
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part of self?
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Self-realization
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goal of development; painful and difficult process, we are always tring trying to understand self and reaching for perfection
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Extraversion
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Introversion
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Sensing
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Thinking
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Feeling
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Intuiting
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3 Principles of operation
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principles of opposites, principle equivalence, principle of entropy
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3 Components of the psyche
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ego, personal unconscious, collective unconscious
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Theory of psychological types, two fundamental attitudes, four functions
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extraverted, introverted; thinking, feeling, sensing, intuitive
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Rational vs. irrational functions
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Dream analysis according to Jung
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dreams are involuntary eruptoin of repressed material from personal and collective unconscious; dreams attemtp to resolve current problems and pointing to directions for healthy development
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Method of amplification
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give numerous associations to a symbol, client suggests personal meanings, therapist suggests universal meaning, client and therapist just talk about meanings and what they mean to the client
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Word association test
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present stimulus word, client responds with whatever word comes to mind, (time latency is an indicator), great meaning in responses
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Painting therapy
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conducted to clarify symbols seen in dreams, goal is to help client better understand him or her self
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