analytic psychology

analytic psychology
analytic psychology n a modification of psychoanalysis due to C. G. Jung that adds to the concept of the personal unconscious a racial or collective unconscious and advocates that psychotherapy be conducted in terms of the patient's present-day conflicts and maladjustments

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analytical psychology the system of psychology founded by Carl G. Jung, based on the concepts of the collective unconscious and the complex.

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