Jungian: It is based mainly on the principles of Carl Gustav JUNG. Jung, a Swiss professor of psychiatry, is one of the three great founders of depth psychology, who started modern psychiatry, along with Freud and Adler.
In the Jungian perspective, mental illnesses are caused by the struggle of the protective powers of the wise within us against factors harmful to the soul, and even cause many mental disorders. Since they are viewed as development-related disorders such as developmental pains or growing pains, the solution in therapy is sought by trying to find answers to the following questions:
What kind of negativities do this behavior*, symptom, this disease protect the person from?
Mental diseases Just like inflammation, it is the combination of disease-causing powers and healing powers. Symptoms of discomfort therefore involve defense mechanisms. Defense mechanisms can often be repulsive even for the person himself. For example, denial in panic and reflecting mental problems onto the body, the puzzle mechanism in obsessions, blaming others in paranoia, are as disturbing as the snake one clings to in order not to drown when we fall into the sea. He hugs the snake that falls into the sea. The snake in our proverb serves as a life preserver despite all its frighteningness. In which wavy sea of the soul does the snake that he has to hold on to, even though he is afraid, protect him from drowning while learning to swim in deep waters?
*The Jungian approach is not only interested in mental illnesses and their symptoms, but also deals with experiential unrest.
What added value does the person seem to have conceived with this disorder?
Many of the seemingly negative and distressing symptoms are indicators that the person has a pregnancy-like positive value for the future. (Just as every foundation pit suitable for the project heralds new functional floors and rooms despite the discomfort it causes.)
Oriented: It remains faithful to Jung's basic understanding and main treatment principles, but does not imitate the application methods exactly. Although dreams are the royal road to the unconscious, the use and maintenance of this road remains foreign, disturbing and luxurious for today's conditions, so they try to reach the unconscious through structured ways like complexes. Today's age of reason is human By working with structured elements due to the patient's excessive need for certainty, and by ignoring the personal causes that cause the disease and focusing on the correction of the common disease mechanisms, the time lost with the previous classical therapies, and especially with Freudian psychoanalysis, is shortened. In a sense, instead of going on the royal road by horse carriage, road routes used by an effective public transportation vehicle such as a high-speed train running on pre-laid rails are preferred. Although recent ages have brought many negative burdens to humanity spiritually, it would be unfair to history to think that they only brought negativity. The positive side of today's conditions is that unconscious resistances are much less or superficial than in the past, for example, a century ago. In JET, the positive and technical achievements of the age are reflected in the traditional Jungian approach. In other words, while keeping the parts of the truths of the past that fit our age, the truths brought by the age are integrated into the treatment.
Although this treatment is basically Jung-oriented, it also borrows the concept of schema from cognitive therapies. Actually, the term borrowing is not quite correct because the concept of schema is almost the same as the concept of unconscious complexes developed by Jung himself. In the most brief definition, schemas are the manifestations of the effects of the complexes in our soul. Jung could not evaluate the concept of complexes, which he developed thanks to the association test he used as a diagnostic method at the beginning of his career, in the way he deserved in his own therapies. In fact, the real importance of complexes (schemas), which mean common and shortcuts, in terms of therapy practicality was actually discovered by psychoanalytically based cognitive therapy theorists such as Aaron T. Beck. If Jung is like Christopher Columbus here, Beck is like Amerigo Vespucci.
In JET, or also known as "Wise Therapy", although Jungian practices are not tried to be applied exactly, the main application principles are preserved. For example, the patient does not lie on the couch facing away from the therapist. They sit opposite each other, in an equal or nearly equal position. The client is not in a semi-passive position, he is almost like an amateur co-therapist and is extremely active. Although the therapist is aware that he is doing important work, the nature of it He is aware of how small he is compared to what he has done, that is, compared to the power of the wise among us, and he is humbled by this. In this position, the patient's mood changes, which provide very important clues, can be monitored moment by moment. Although current face-to-face therapies are not actually well known, they are a legacy from Jung. Another important difference brought by Jung is that in therapies, care should be taken not to create an artificial environment that is too disconnected from daily life. A sharing close to free association can also be achieved in an environment that reduces resistance, is as natural and sincere as possible, and is full of love and respect.
However, in practice, not everything remains as implemented by Jung. In modern "Sage therapy", methods such as dreams and active imagination, which he frequently uses, are not given much space. Complexes that create negative emotions and negative scenarios regarding their consequences also do this job easily. (Actually, the scenarios used in cognitive treatments resemble Jung's active imagination technique.) The main method of therapy is to examine the complexes that Jung rediscovered but did not include in his therapies and to correct the misdirections of wrong perceptions, that is, the injustices the client has done to himself, as much as possible.
There are also differences in JET compared to contemporary therapies. Since it is now known to the client that we are under the super vision of the sage within us, resistance to therapy remains low and there is no need to be as active as cognitive and schema therapists and to engage in relentless Socratic questioning. There is almost no need for behaviorist assignments, because with the indirect support that paves the way for the wise within us, and with the respectful attitude and supportive attitude of the therapist himself, imitating the wise within us, the danger of meaninglessness or insecurity that threatens the patient is much reduced, and when the danger is removed, potential behaviors are already spontaneously directed towards the appropriate one, under the influence of the collective experience of millennia. flows.
Brief:
Brief definition means that the treatment provides an effect in a relatively short period of time compared to general practices in psychiatry. Although not yet the subject of therapeutic research, rapid effectiveness has been and continues to be confirmed by clinical observations. Although sometimes the problem can be solved roughly even in a single session, depending on the condition of the disorder, personal basis and targeted Depending on the level of recovery, therapy periods may be extended. In addition, “Wise therapy” is not only valid for mental illnesses, as it is for all therapies and especially Jungian therapies. As a common feature of Jungian therapies, they are also applied for personal development purposes, and of course, there is no limit or restriction in terms of duration in these practices. The effect of the therapy in a short time has been observed not only in comparison with classical psychoanalysis or psychodynamically oriented therapies, but also with structured contemporary therapies that I have had the opportunity to practice frequently in the past, such as cognitive-behavioral therapies. The following factors play a role in the rapid effect of the treatment and its effectiveness in a relatively short period of time:
1) The protective unconscious is extremely effective, our nature's own (organic) powerful and classical methods are now closed or idle due to the puberty crises of the age. Opening unpopular roads by modernizing them (such as the transformation from a black train to a high-speed train and the rediscovery that the leech's blood and edema-attracting power is superior to all technological methods without causing harm).
2) Complexes (schemas) that can be considered as archetypes of the personal unconscious of the treatment. It prevents loss of time by using shortcuts and common methods through which all ailments pass.
3) One of the reasons why therapies are effective in short periods of time is that one does not make the mistake of wasting time by dealing with what causes defense mechanisms, like classical psychoanalytic treatments. Classical psychotherapies have made the mistake of considering what causes disorders and treating them as the same concept. Although it is important to understand what causes a person, it is often unimportant for treatment. This is also confirmed by the results of the effects of contemporary therapies on interference with schemas, which is the common path used by all harmful factors. In order to repair the car, it is often not necessary to question which car hit it, when and how. Accident reports of past traumas are not examined except in very necessary situations, and repairs are attempted directly. In this way, evaluation at JET takes a short time. Starting the repair without wasting time with such inquiries also makes a positive contribution to the relatively short duration of the treatment.
4) Te Although therapy is actually the surgery of pacipsychiatry, in all Jungian therapies, the resistance to therapy decreases due to the fact that it is as close to the naturalness of a daily conversation in an environment of humility and masklessness as possible, and that it suits our nature. Jungian therapies are based on the rationality of putting intuition, which is the composite voice of the wise unconscious, ahead of the mind, and thus the wisdom of the unconscious. Therapies go smoothly due to the advantage of being able to use it very consciously. The therapist seems to be doing therapy under the supervision of the unconscious. Wisdom means being flexible within principles. Jung himself, especially during his periods of mastery, did not feel the need for long-term normative psychoanalysis, and had the advantage of leaving himself in the hands of his inner wisdom. This is why it is very difficult for the therapist to make mistakes in Jungian treatments. The therapist knows that it is very difficult for the patient to make mistakes as he opens the way to his inner wisdom. Since this knowledge lightens his burden, it enables him to take responsibility for his patient more easily. It does not evade the responsibility of the transference, and even causes it to encourage the transference that allows the patient to grow and mature again and in a healthier way. Even though transference support creates temporary addiction, it solves the problems quickly, so it knows that this addiction is temporary and will make the nail go away. Although Jungian therapies do not have a certain limit, the self-relief provided by the fact that the interventions are not subject to the rigid therapy rules seen in the psychoanalytic approach, and the relatively low resistance of the patient to therapeutic interventions, automatically shortens the therapy duration as it makes it easier to achieve the goals of the interventions.
5) Discovery of the unconscious. It has come to such a time that paradoxically it has brought the consciousness that discovered it even more to the fore, and pushed the unconscious use of the unconscious further into the background than in all ages. Many factors play a role in this development, from the capitalist pressure of unconscious therapies not being mass produced like drugs, to the difficulty of accepting childhood sexuality that comes with the discovery of the unconscious, and the irrationality that disturbs societies accustomed to rationality. Today's people use things that are less effective but much more noticeable in daily life.
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