In this course we will explore a challenging but extremely important question: How does real psychological change actually occur in a particular person?
Jung describes the way he worked this way: “For me, as far as the individual is concerned there is only one understanding, namely an individual one. The requirement patients bring with them is infinitely variable. Even the language is different. For every patient a different language is needed.”
While many psychological traditions describe change in terms of insight, behavior modification, adaptation, or symptom reduction, Jungian psychology locates change and transformation in the encounter between consciousness and the psyche’s own living images.
From the power of our own unique images—not limited to dreams and fantasies but also our images of ourselves, of others, and of the world—we have the capacity to rearrange our inner and outer experience.