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Carl Gustav Jung (26 July 1875 6 June 1961) was a Swiss psychiatrist,
psychotherapist who developed and founded the therapeutic-psychological system
named analytical psychology. His work has been influential not only in
psychology, but also in other realms such as Eastern Vs Western philosophy,
alchemy, astrology, anthropology, archaeology, sociology, literature, arts, and
religious studies.
Individuation is the central concept of his analytical psychology. It is the
psychological process of integrating the opposites, including the conscious with the
unconscious, while still maintaining their relative autonomy. And he considered it to
be the central process of human development.
He was a prolific writer, though many of his works were not published until after his
death. He created some of the best known psychological concepts, including
Jungian archetypes, the collective unconscious, the psychological complex, and
extroversion and introversion.
He was one of the first people to define introversion and extroversion in a
psychological context. In his Psychological Types, he categorizes that each person
falls into either the introvert or the extrovert. Introverts interpret the world
subjectively, whereas extroverts interpret the world objectively. The first is focused
on the internal world of reflection, dreaming and vision; thoughtful and insightful
and can sometimes be uninterested in joining the activities of others. While the
latter is interested in joining the activities of the world; energetic, lively and is
focused on the outside world of objects, sensory perception and action.

MAJOR CONCEPTS

DESCRIPTION
In Individuation, a person becomes a psychological
individual, a separate indivisible unity or whole.
(http://www.mind-development.eu/jung.html)

PERSON

The Self provides a sense of unity in experience. The

ultimate aim of every individual is to achieve a state of
selfhood (similar to self-actualization).
(http://www.simplypsychology.org/carl-jung.html)

HEALTH
We can experience energy depletion and fatigue when we
use our other mental functions for too long, rather than
using our dominant function, our most preferred

function. It could be psychologically detrimental to our well

being when our environment does not support us in the use
of our dominant function; he called as falsification of
type.
(http://mbtitoday.org/carl-jung-psychological-type/)
The use of 4 sub-types of perception in Nursing
Assessment:
Sensing Perception The process of collecting concrete
data through using our five senses.

NURSING

Intuitive Perception (intuition) The process by which

we make connections and infer meanings beyond sensory
data.
Thinking Judgment The process we use for evaluating
information by applying objective and logical criteria.
Feeling Judgment The process we use for evaluating
information by considering what is important to me and
you.
(http://mbtitoday.org/carl-jung-psychological-type/)

ENVIRONMENT

Alternation of two energy attitudes (introvert or extrovert)

as needs arise or environment dictates. The ideal is to be
flexible and to adopt in whichever attitude is more
appropriate in a given situation-to operate in terms of a
dynamic balance between the two and not develop a fixed,
rigid way of responding to the world.
When environment does not support the use of our
dominant function, it could be psychologically detrimental
to our well being. (http://mbtitoday.org/carl-jungpsychological-type/)

Carl Jungs Eight Mental Functions-in-Attitude

FunctionAttitude

Definition

Extraverted
Sensing

Outward and active focus on the objective world and on gathering

factual data and sensory experiences.

Introverted
Sensing

Inward and reflective focus on subjective sensory experiences and

on the storing of factual historical data.

Extraverted
Intuition

Outward and active focus on the new, the possibilities and

meanings/ patterns in the objective world.

Introverted
Intuition

Inward and reflective focus on the subjective world of symbols,

meanings, insight and patterns that come up from the unconscious.

Extraverted
Thinking

Outward and active focus on applying logical order to the

objective world through building structure, organization and
making decisions.

Introverted
Thinking

Inward and reflective focus on the subjective world of reason that

seeks understanding through finding the logical principles behind
phenomena.

Extraverted
Feeling

Outward and active focus on bringing order to the objective world

through building and seeking harmony with others and alignment
with openly expressed values.

Introverted
Feeling

Inward and reflective focus on the subjective world of deeply felt

values that seek harmony through alignment of personal behavior
with those values and evaluation of phenomena in light of those
values.

Thomas J. Golatz. Used with permission of the Center for Applications of Psychological
Type, www.capt.org.
In Jungian terms, we define our type by our dominant function, which is our most preferred mental
function. For example, if we like to use Extraverted Sensing more than any of the other seven mental
functions, Extraverted Sensing is our dominant function and we are an Extraverted Sensing Type.
Jung stated that we can experience energy depletion and fatigue when we use our other mental
functions for too long. Jung went so far as to say that it could be psychologically detrimental to our

well being when our environment does not support us in the use of our dominant function; he called
this falsification of type.