BY CARA CASHMAN

Carl Jung: Personality Development

Carl Gustav JungSwiss psychologistBorn in Kesswil, July 26, 1875Died Zürich, June 6, 1961Influential in psychiatry, study of religion,

literatureCreated archetype, collective unconscious,

complex, and synchronicity

Human Psyche

human psyche - "by nature religious", focus of his explorations

All people could be assessed into learning stylesHumans are ambiverts, have both tendencies

One tendency dominates over the otherIndividuation- central process for all human

development

Archetypes

models of people, behaviors or personalities. ego represents conscious mind

everything inside of our awareness. aspect of mental processing – cognative tasks

collective unconscious - form of psychological inheritance

contains all knowledge and experiences we share as a species

Application to Parenting

 labeled “problems” - parents and home environment created

Parents change scene needed for mental health Parental individuation for healing problem child

struggle own fault for why a child may have problems

Don’t analyze children, difficult and inappropriateChild reflects family’s domestic realityparents have chance for self improvement

Application to The Classroom

Categorized four personality patterns Extraversion vs. Introversion Sensation vs. Intuition Thinking vs. Feeling Judging vs. Perceiving

led  to Myers-Briggs Type Indicatorassess\describe various learning styleseach dimension represents an aspect of a learning

style may include a combination of these dimensions.

Closing Slide

founded analytical psychologyTheorized the human psycheExtraverted, introverted personality, archetypes,

collective unconsciousIndividuation – center of human development Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) developed

from Jung's theories

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