Yung's method of treatment was help his patients find a meaning to their lives. Young believed that when stuck in a deep depression or consumed by an anxiety disorder, to be cured necessitates discovering a role as one of the actors in the divine drama of life. To understand what was meant by this, we can turned to an encounter yung head with a chief of the pueblo tribe in the first half of the twentieth century.
“This is precisely the risk modern man runs: he may wake up one day to find that he has missed half his life.” Carl Jung, Practice of Psychotherapy Psychotropic drugs have become one of the most common forms of treatment for anxiety disorders and depression. But these drugs are not very good at curing […]
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How to Stop Wasting Your Life – Carl Jung as Therapist first appeared on
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