Belief systems and the analytic work

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Articulation of the patient's unconscious belief systems can be an effective practice in psychotherapy. Although many therapists tend to focus on emotions rather than cognitive responses, patients may more readily grasp a formulation in terms of how they are thinking, the source of their beliefs, and the consequences for their lives. Unconscious belief systems are developed in early childhood and include beliefs about the self, about others, and about what is required to feel safe, to feel good about oneself, to prevent fears from being realized.

Cognition, Emotions, Emotions and cognition, Belief and doubt

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Jung's contribution to the evolving concept of self

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Carl Jung may have advanced psychoanalysts' understanding of the self through his filter as a phenomenologist. Jung believed the self was the organizer and supervisor of the psyche, or the sum of all mental activity. Jung's perspective as a phenomenologist may have furthered the modern understanding of self as the experiencing and observing self. His writings blended Eastern and Western psychology and may have contributed to the development of object-relations theory and self psychology.

Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Criticism and interpretation, Jung, Carl Gustav

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Conflict and deficit: toward an integrative vision of the self

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The psychotherapy patient sense of the self can be seen as an integration of both the conflict and the deficit approaches. The approaches have been applied in psychotherapy separately to two-person and three-person relationships to identify the forces influencing the formation of the self. The different approaches should not be seen as mutually exclusive because they can both be applied to the same patients at different stages of development.

Analysis, Self realization, Self-actualization (Psychology)

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