Integrative Jungian Psychotherapy
Integrative Jungian Psychotherapy for Anxiety and OCD
Presenter: Silvio Machado
Presenter Status: Faculty
Department: Counseling
Funding Source/Sponsor: RSCAP
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Abstract:
| Cognitive-behavioral interventions for anxiety and obsessive-compulsive disorder have received a great deal of attention for their growing evidence base. These therapies focus on symptom elimination by way of cognitive and behavioral change and, though undoubtedly helpful, miss important symbolic aspects of the client’s experience of these disorders that have the potential for meaning and the resolution of traumatic history. Jungian psychotherapy, like other depth- and humanistically-oriented approaches, is concerned both with meaning in the client’s life and the process by which the client becomes more themselves by integrating fragmented, wounded, and hidden aspects of the psyche—a process known as individuation. This project integrates Jungian concepts with trauma theory to generate an integrative framework for psychotherapy with individuals with anxiety and OCD. |