Positive Impact On Carl Jung's Eight Psychological Types

Alfred Adler also had a positive influential impact on Carl Jung. Adler and Jung were both students of Freud, and they both formed their own school of thought. Adler and Jung’s theories went hand in hand and dealt with the basic quality of human nature as a positive existence (Durand & Barlow, 2016). Carl Jung made a huge impact and was very influential on Isabel Briggs-Meyer. She created the Myers-Briggs test which was based on Carl Jung’s eight psychological types. The Briggs-Meyers test expanded the original 8 psychological types to 16. She looked at portraying and expanding the individual rather than just portraying the individual as Carl Jung had done. The main goal of the Briggs-Meyers test was to become ‘superior skill in one function, supplemented by a helpful but not competitive skill in the other,’ which is how it differs from Carl Jung’s theory (Myers, 2016). Jung’s introversion and extraversion made an impact on Hans Eysenck. Eysenck took the idea of introversion and extraversion and made his Maudsley Personality Inventory. This is a test that measures two of Carl Jung’s psychological types. It did show support …show more content…
I believe this because he showed that there is more to the mind than the conscious. The collective unconscious was a positive impact on the psychology field because it showed that the mind is capable of so many different aspects. It also helps to explain involuntary movements or actions. The collective unconscious in my opinion, was the most important and beneficial impact that Carl Jung had made. Another reason I believe Carl Jung made a positive impact was because of his psychological types. Carl Jung’s psychological types explained the differences between introversion and extraversion, as well as the differences between thinking, feeling, sensations, and intuition. These psychological types ideally explain the attitudes of individuals and why they act the way they