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Transpersonal Psychology: Carl Jung
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Transpersonal psychology is depth psychology. It is part of the therapeutic stream started by Freud and his successors, Jung, Rank, and Reich. Roberto Assagioli, who posited a superconscious, as well as a subconscious, integrated transpersonal and depth psychology, as did Carl Jung.
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Coinciding with an interest in magic, today there is ... increased attention being paid to transpersonal or depth psychology, a trend initiated by Jung and further examined by psychologists such as Roberto Assagioli (1888-1975). The word transpersonal means that which transcends the personal or the individual. Transpersonal psychology takes a more spiritual approach to the human dilemma, and does not reject the idea of the soul – rather, it embraces it. A true system of transpersonal psychology must examine the highest aspects of the unconscious and take a philosophical as well as pragmatic approach to human evolution.
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While Humanistic Psychology emphasized the potential within the Self, Transpersonal Psychology developed to focus on transcendence of Self. This "transcendence" refers to a development of consciousness towards a unity with what Carl Jung called the "collective unconscious".
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Existentialism is a relatively recent philosophical movement that has strongly influenced humanistic and transpersonal psychology, most especially the ideas of Carl Rogers. Here are a few web links defining or introducing existentialism:
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