From Carl Jung's Contribution To Psychology

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Carl Jung was born in July 26, 1875 in a town called Kesswill Switzerland. Carl lived a long full life and died at the age of 85 on June 6, 1961. He was often referred to by the name C.G Jung and was a psychotherapists and psychiatrist. Although Jung is world renowned for his work, many of his writing works were not published till after his death. His work has been influential not only in psychiatry, but also in philosophy, anthropology, archaeology, literature and religious studies [1].

Jung grew up in a small family with his mom dad and younger sister Emily. Growing up Jung struggled with a troubled family that had many problems. He had a strong bond with his father, because of the issues his family dealt with his mother. When Jung was 6
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He was an influential American psychologist and was one of the main founders of humanistic approach to psychology [2]. He was born and raised in Oak Park, Illinois. Rogers has a PhD that he obtained at the university of Wisconsin-Madison.

Growing up Rogers was one of six children in his family and was the middle child of the bunch. At a young age, there was no doubt that Rogers was a bright kid. He was able to read before he was in kindergarten. Following education and strict religious ethical environment as an altar boy, he became a very isolated and independent and disciplined child [2]. Rogers acquired knowledge and appreciation for the scientific method, which became the basis for his research. After getting is MA Rogers worked in Child study was help lead to his most famous work with
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Freud 's redefinition of sexuality to include its infantile forms led him to formulate the HYPERLINK "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oedipus_complex" Oedipus complex as the central tenet of psychoanalytical theory. His analysis of HYPERLINK "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dream" dreams as wish fulfillments provided him with models for the clinical analysis of symptom formation and the mechanisms of HYPERLINK "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_repression" repression as well as for elaboration of his theory of the HYPERLINK "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unconscious_mind" unconscious

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