From neuroses to a new cure for souls: C.G. Jung and the reshaping of the therapeutic patient

This paper studies how from the First World War onwards, C. G. Jung reformulated his psychotherapeutic procedure on the basis of his own self-experimentation. It shows how through doing so, he shifted the aims of psychotherapy from being solely the cure of pathology to one of higher psychological and spiritual development, and in so doing, proposed a new notion of humanity. It studies a series of cases of Jung, demonstrating how he reformulated the ‘offer’ of psychotherapy, how individuals took it up, and how this helped to shape the social role of the psychotherapeutic patient