El Contenido de las psicosis/Psicogenesis de las enfermedades mentales/Paidos psicologia profunda

by C.G. Jung

El presente volumen tiene la intención de transmitir al público en general cierto concepto del punto de vista psicológico de la psiquiatría moderna. Y con este fin incluye un conjunto de ensayos, fruto de la reflexión de Jung sobre la psicología y la enfermedad mental a lo largo de varias décadas, cuyas investigaciones se basan en un argumento muy la posible existencia de una función psicológica no adaptada que puede convertirse en un trastorno mental manifiesto e inducir, de forma secundaria, síntomas de degeneración orgánica. Así, el primer texto, <>, data de 1908, es decir, de la época en que el autor era miembro destacado del incipiente movimiento psicoanalítico, y los dos últimos, escritos en 1956 y 1958, exponen sus conclusiones después de muchos años de experiencia en el estudio de la normalidad y el tratamiento de diversos trastornos psíquicos, en particular la psicoterapia de la esquizofrenia. Todos ellos, en fin, reflejan las técnicas especialmente asociada al nombre de Jung y contienen -a veces en germen, otras en una formulación concluída- los fundamentos de su pensamiento más maduro. Un libro, pues, indispensable para una comprensión cabal del pensamiento de uno de los más innovadores psiquiatras de la historia.

142 pages, Paperback

First published February 8, 1990

About the author

Carl Gustav Jung (/jʊŋ/; German: [ˈkarl ˈɡʊstaf jʊŋ]), often referred to as C. G. Jung, was a Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist who founded analytical psychology. Jung proposed and developed the concepts of extraversion and introversion; archetypes, and the collective unconscious. His work has been influential in psychiatry and in the study of religion, philosophy, archeology, anthropology, literature, and related fields. He was a prolific writer, many of whose works were not published until after his death.

The central concept of analytical psychology is individuation—the psychological process of integrating the opposites, including the conscious with the unconscious, while still maintaining their relative autonomy. Jung considered individuation to be the central process of human development.

Jung created some of the best known psychological concepts, including the archetype, the collective unconscious, the complex, and synchronicity. The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI), a popular psychometric instrument, has been developed from Jung's theory of psychological types.

Though he was a practising clinician and considered himself to be a scientist, much of his life's work was spent exploring tangential areas such as Eastern and Western philosophy, alchemy, astrology, and sociology, as well as literature and the arts. Jung's interest in philosophy and the occult led many to view him as a mystic, although his ambition was to be seen as a man of science. His influence on popular psychology, the "psychologization of religion", spirituality and the New Age movement has been immense.