Our approach

"The task consists in integrating the unconscious, in bringing together 'conscious' and 'unconscious'. I have called this the individuation process (...)"

C. G. Jung (CW 5, para. 459)

Sometimes  we feel like we're out of step with our lives, at least as we understand them, and this is particularly disturbing.

Sometimes we realize that the same situation recurs repeatedly in our lives and we don't understand why. 

Sometimes we feel depressed for no real reason, or euphoric, again for no real reason. 

Sometimes we feel depressed for a long time, or alternating between euphoric and depressed states. 

Sometimes we do not seem to feel the emotion appropriate for a given situation (the emotion we would consider "normal" in such a situation) or we feel excessively emotional.

Sometimes we blame others for everything that's happened to us. 

Sometimes we blame ourselves and endlessly torture ourselves in a whirlwind of repetitive thoughts.

In all these situations, our reaction (in thought or behaviour) has an emotional tone which appears somehow "disconnected" from the intensity of the situation. 

Excessive emotional reaction or lack of emotional reaction in a given situation is often linked to the manifestation of an unconscious complex, i.e. a hidden mechanism that influences us from 'under the surface'.

A Jungian approach allows a consideration of these phenomena as 'normal' manifestations of the complexity of human nature, rather than necessarily as a pathological state.

Jungian therapy can thus be helpful to identify, understand and possibly learn to cope with human complexity and the unconscious hidden mechanisms that may poison our life.

  • Manuela Algeri

    Member and Accredited Jungian Analyst of the C.G.Jung Institute - Zürich and member of the IAAP (International Association of Analytical Psychology)

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  • Luigi G. Ramazio

    Member and Accredited Jungian Analyst of the C.G.Jung Institute - Zürich and member of the IAAP (International Association of Analytical Psychology)

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