The Swiss psychiatrist
Carl Gustav Jung founded analytic psychology at the turn of the last century. This discipline emphasizes the value of one’s creative forces and one’s development toward wholeness.
In his effort to understand and engage the whole person, Jung viewed his analytical psychology as a therapy which releases creativity and promotes individual psychological development. Thus, far from being just another theory, Jungian psychology embraces the universe in all its manifestations: art, history, myth, philosophy, and spirituality are all essential components of Jung’s worldview.
Carl jung carefully recorded his dreams, fantasies, and visions.He found that his experiences tended to form themselves into persons, beginning with a wise old man and his companion, a little girl. The wise old man evolved, over a number of dreams, into a sort of spiritual guru. The little girl became "anima," the feminine soul, who served as his main medium of communication with the deeper aspects of his unconscious.A leathery brown dwarf would show up guarding the entrance to the unconscious. He was "the shadow," a primitive companion for Jung's ego.
Allowing waking consciousness to furnish our only psychological point of view holds our educational efforts to a fixed way of seeing, of feeling, of knowing and of understanding in such a way that it unexpectedly restricts the very innovation, imagination and creativity that we wish to cultivate...
Source: Depth Psychology and Giftedness: Bringing Soul to the Field of Talent Development and Giftedness by F. Christopher Reynolds & Jane Piirto
Reference: http://webspace.ship.edu/cgboer/jung.html
The Role of Play in Adulthood
Imagination is an important part of mental health self expression and creativity according to the encyclopedia of adulthood as we go into adulthood we encounter obstacles to the development of creativity and self expressiveness are encountered. Play is a necessary relief from the seriousness of life.
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