Carl Jung

Carl Gustav Jung (born July 26, 1875, Kesswil, Switzerland – died June 6, 1961, Küsnacht) was a Swiss psychiatrist, an influential thinker, and one of the founding fathers of modern psychology. Jung is considered a pioneer of analytical psychology which he developed as his own system of psychoanalysis. Jung's concept, the 'collective unconscious,' has had a deep influence on psychology as well as philosophy, the arts and the scientific research in the field of psychology.

Jung did his early schooling in Basel and he enrolled in his medical training at the University of Basel medical school, he received his degree in 1900. After graduation Jung worked as an assistant at the University of Zurich Psychiatric Clinic, under psychiatrist Eugene Bleuler (1857-1939) a psychiatrist renowned for his work on schizophrenia.

In 1905, Jung became a faculty in psychiatry at the University of Zurich and became a senior physician at its clinic. Eventually, a growing private practice forced him to resign his university position. Jung's early published studies on schizophrenia established his reputation, and he also won recognition for developing a wordassociation test.

While working as a psychiatrist at the famous Burghölzli Clinic in Zurich, Jung had read Sigmund Freud's The Interpretation of Dreams shortly after its publication in 1900. Jung initiated a friendship with Freud by correspondence and became one of Freud’s most respected students after the two men met in 1907. The close association lasted for over six years afterwhich the relationship was mutually broken off over differences in theoretical understanding and personality differences.