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The achievements of Carl Jung

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July 24 , 2010

The achievements of Carl Jung

Introduction

I am an eighty -five year old ruining of a formerly capable man These are words Carl Jung once used to describe himself as quoted by Dunne (Dunne , 2003 . Carl Jung was a psychiatrist from Switzerland and was born in July 26 , 1875 in a place called Kesswil . In all of his life he was always known for his clairvoyance and at one time he stated that many

of his psychic experiences could be attributed to psychological disturbances (Cowles , 2009 . Carl is regarded as a pioneer psychiatrist who has influenced many areas of knowledge for example medicine , art psychology , religion , humanities and science . His work has been said to be a vital bridge that link east to west , north to south (Dunne ,2003 and thus , this essay seeks to find out his accomplishments and how his work influenced the New thought movement

Accomplishments

At University in 1902 , Carl managed to come up with a dissertation titled On psychology and pathology of so called Occult Phenomena (Cowgil , 1997 . In 1903 , he established a laboratory for psychological experiments (Tower , nd ) where he conducted his first research in the year 1904 on `Word association in patients . At this point , he invented the word `complex ' to describe psychic context that has been repressed and this research brought him closer to Sigmund Freud and they started to wok together . Some people thought that he would...