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Bring Awareness to Your False Self

Carl Jung, the pioneering swiss psychiatrist who founded analytical psychology, believed that the false self was a “violation of the…

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Joe Gibson
Apr 12, 2023
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Carl Jung, the pioneering swiss psychiatrist who founded analytical psychology, believed that the false self was a “violation of the natural disposition” of the authentic human experience. He believed it to be a serious problem in the patients he saw in the early 1900s with their symptoms being a direct result of l…

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