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Carl Gustav Jung:
A Notable Contributor to
The Discipline of Psychology

February 8, 2005



Carl Gustav Jung was a Swiss-German psychoanalyst who was one of the truly great minds of psychology and is often considered to be the father of humanistic and transpersonal psychology. Jung was born July 26, 1875 at Kesswil, Canton Thurgau, Switerland, and lived in Switzerland all his life. His father was a protestant parson; his grandfather, after whom he was named, was medical director of the University of Basil, where, in 1895, Carl became a medical student. He had originally wanted to be a surgeon, but his father could not afford the post-graduate schooling. As a senior, Carl attended psychology lectures, but was not at all interested in the subject. He read the text at the last moment before finals, and was amazed that the science was not more developed, like other fields of medicine. Psychiatry was somewhat held in contempt at the time, and many believed mental illness......

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