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|Carl Gustav Jung|
Jung in 1910
|Born||26 July 1875
Kesswil, Thurgau, Switzerland
|Died||6 June 1961 (aged 85)
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
|Fields||Psychiatry, Psychology, Psychotherapy, Analytical psychology|
|Institutions||Burghölzli, Swiss Army (as a commissioned officer in World War I)|
|Doctoral advisor||Eugen Bleuler, Sigmund Freud|
|Known for||Analytical psychology|
Jung considered the process of individuation necessary for a person to become whole. This is a psychological process of integrating the opposites including the conscious with the unconscious while still maintaining their relative autonomy. Individuation was the central concept of analytical psychology.
Many pioneering psychological concepts were originally proposed by Jung, including the Archetype, the Collective Unconscious, the Complex, and synchronicity. A popular psychometric instrument, the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI), has been principally developed from Jung's theories.