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Institutional conflicts in Jungian analysis
Author(s) -
Eisold Kenneth
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
journal of analytical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.285
H-Index - 23
eISSN - 1468-5922
pISSN - 0021-8774
DOI - 10.1111/1465-5922.00240
Subject(s) - analytical psychology , identity (music) , psychology , psychoanalysis , internal conflict , mental health , division (mathematics) , sociology , social psychology , political science , psychotherapist , law , philosophy , aesthetics , arithmetic , mathematics , politics
This paper explores how the institutional life of analytical psychology has been beset by its historical and continuing conflictual relationship with psychoanalysis. Stemming from a division in Jung's identity, that of the spiritual seeker and that of a mental health practitioner, the organizations of analytical psychology have repeatedly enacted that division, resulting in an unclear mission and considerable conflict. In England those conflicts have led to schisms; in America they have played out in internal conflicts within training institutes. Examples of areas of conflict are provided, along with suggestions for addressing these conflicts by recognizing them more openly.