ABSTRACT
C. G. Jung's psychotherapy is a treatment of the psyche in which a patient and a psychotherapist work to bridge the inherently high degree of dissociability that Jung associated with Western consciousness, an association that recent cognitive research appears to corroborate. Jung deliberately employed an equivocal language to convey the affective and dynamic aspects of many of his psychological concepts. Jung attempted to normalize the role of the religious function as an instinct from which secularized modern cultures have distanced themselves but which often manifests within the temenos as an aspect of the healing. Indeed, he described the psychotherapeutic healing process contained within the temenos as psychically charged with unconscious possibilities. Jean-Michel Oughourlian based his interdividual psychology on a psychosocial theory of imitative or mimetic desire developed by the cultural critic and theorist Rene Girard. Jacob L. Moreno addressed the suffering of the individual self in problems of role.
