What is Jungian Analysis?
Jung understood the psyche as purposeful — always moving toward something. Symptoms, repeated patterns, disturbing dreams are not simply evidence of what went wrong. They are often signals of what the psyche is trying to become.
Jungian analysis is a form of depth psychotherapy developed from the work of Carl Gustav Jung. Unlike approaches focused primarily on the past, Jungian analysis has a prospective orientation — it asks where the psyche is trying to go next.
A different question
Jung understood the psyche as purposeful — always moving toward something. Symptoms, repeated patterns, disturbing dreams are not simply evidence of what went wrong. They are often signals of what the psyche is trying to become.
“I am not only looking at the past. I am really looking at where the psyche wants to go next. This is something very important in Jungian analysis.” — Philippe Jacquet
Restoring the balance between conscious and unconscious
Modern life pushes us progressively toward consciousness and away from the unconscious. Over time this creates an imbalance. The unconscious — with its imagery, instinct, and creative life — becomes increasingly remote.
“Jungian analysis helps by bringing unconscious material into the conscious soup — changing the soup, changing the taste of life. Finding meaning is very important.” — Philippe Jacquet
Time and the pace of change
Jungian analysis holds that human beings need time to change — real time, not optimised time. The psyche does not change on a schedule.
What to expect
Sessions are open-ended conversations. Dreams, images, recurring thoughts, relationship patterns — all of it is material. What changes is the quality of the suffering.
“You will not suffer less. You will suffer better.” — Philippe Jacquet
Book a consultation with Philippe Jacquet — psychotherapist and Jungian analyst, London.