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Carl Jung was a Swiss psychiatrist and the founder of the school of analytical psychology. Carl was born on June 26th, 1875 in Switzerland. Jung was an only son. Jung from a very early age was a lonely child. From being always lonely, he would spend hours watching the adults around him, which say helped him develop his later work. Jung’s mother Emilie had serious mental problems. People would refer to her as “eccentric and outgoing” during the day, but at night she was said to be “strange” in a sense. She spent a large amount of time by herself in her bedroom where she saw “spirits”. Jung’s mother left the family to live at a psychiatric hospital for a period of time shortly after Jung had turned three years old. When Jung was 12 years …show more content…

He finally decided to study medicine. Shortly after starting his college education, his father passed away. Four years later he graduated from the University and then went to the University of Zurich for two more years to get his M.D. While studying at Zurich, he picked up a job working for a nearby psychiatric hospital. The man that Jung worked for (Eugene Blueler) was a psychologist that was working on mental illness. Jung learned about the effects of mental illness and based several studies off of the subconscious of the mentally ill. In 1903, Jung married Emma Rauschenbach. They would go on to be married for fifty years. They also had five …show more content…

In 1906, he sent his “Studies on World Association” to the famous psychologist, Sigmund Freud. Jung would not hear from Freud but meet him nearly a year later where they talked of their ideas and theories on things. They grew to be close colleagues, and worked together for six years. The following year after meeting Freud, Carl became the newest editor for a psychoanalytical research. Shortly after taking his new job, Jung went the United States for the first time. He and Freud went the Clark University in Massachusetts. Twenty-seven important psychologists, neurologists, and psychiatrists attended the meeting. In 1910, Jung became the new chairman for life of the International Psychoanalytical Association. He was able to secure this position through his close friendship with Freud, and Freud even referred to him as, “ his adopted son, his crown prince, and successor.” That statement makes a valid point of how close the two had become working

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