ABSTRACT
Jung's method of contacting the unconscious and working with it can be understood partially as a creative reaction to the Freudian methods which he adopted in his early practice. In the spirit of Jung's creative methods for contacting the contents of the unconscious, but also in line with the use of meditational-type practices within psychotherapy, this chapter illustrates a method that can be used under certain conditions. It focuses-awareness technique, which at its most simple includes listening to the deep psyche, expressing honestly and forcibly whatever pain or complexes lie within it, and contacting the dark and light aspects of the psyche. Jung developed many transpersonal components in his efforts to align consciousness to the unconscious. The chapter outlines the psychotherapeutic journey, to Assagioli's vision of psychosynthesis, as well as to some key figures in the transpersonal tradition such as F. Vaughan and J. Welwood, illustrating how the use of awareness methods for accessing the unconscious may be used.
