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Loosely translated, it refers to “a spiritual experience to counter addiction to the spirits (alcoholism).”. Spiritus in Latin means both alcoholic beverages, i.e., spirits, and the highest religious experience.
- Jung and The Labyrinth of Addiction, by Mary Addenbrooke
- Carl Jung on Addiction
- Jung on The Evil of Addiction
Jung wrote little about addiction. He claimed that he was afraid of being misunderstood by the scientific community of his day. However, he has had a profound influence on one source of help available to people with problems of addiction. This is his link, indirect though it was, with the founding and philosophy of Alcoholics Anonymous. This “Fello...
Jung understood the psychological function of drugs in a different way from other psychoanalytic writers, not merely as changing mood (calming or stimulating), but actually changing what happens in the inner world. This means not simply masking psychic distress but actually removing the cause of the distress for the time being. Chemical substances,...
David Schoen’s theme is that addiction itself is a malevolent, murderous force, not amenable to reason or to the types of treatment, such as medication, analysis or cognitive approaches, applied to other forms of mental illness. If unchecked, it can devour every aspect of the person’s life and end in tragedy. He brings into play images from myth an...
Jan 27, 2024 · Jungian psychology posits that addiction is not merely a physical addiction but a manifestation of deeper psychological and spiritual imbalances. At the core of Jung’s approach is the belief that...
- Oliver Walker
Nov 14, 2015 · Having exhausted other means of recovery from his alcoholism, it was about 1931 that he became your patient. I believe he remained under your care for perhaps a year. His admiration for you was boundless, and he left you with a feeling of much confidence.
Dec 16, 2015 · The thing that I find amazing about this letter from Carl Jung to Bill Wilson concerning spirituality and alcoholism, is that Bill Wilson was nearing the end of his life and felt a need to express to Carl Jung how profoundly he was affected by his views.
A little-known fact in the history of alcoholism and recovery is the influence of the great Swiss Psychiatrist Dr Carl Jung. While Dr Jung wasn’t directly.
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It was his theory that alcoholism had two components - an obsession that compelled the sufferer to drink against his will and interest, and some sort of metabolism difficulty which he then called an allergy.
