• Question: Do any of you trust old psychologists like Jung? Could his archetypes ever help explain to us anything about psychosis in the modern day?

    Asked by Archetype of Self to Jack, Gem, Jermaine, Michelle, Steve on 15 Jun 2017.
    • Photo: Jermaine Ravalier

      Jermaine Ravalier answered on 15 Jun 2017:

      Yeah the work of Jung, Rogers, Freud etc are still used by now loads.

      For example Jung’s work is the basis of the Myers Briggs Type Indicator (Google it…) which is used in LOADS of the biggest organisations across the world to recruit staff and for staff development etc.

      The work of people like Rogers is the basis of positive psychology, which I use in a lot of my research (e.g. employee engagement, which is massive at the moment…).

      Freud is still used in things like counselling too…

    • Photo: Steven Brown

      Steven Brown answered on 16 Jun 2017:

      I used to be quite into Jung, but not read his stuff for a while. He coined a lot of phrases we now use today, such as extraversion and intraversion.

    • Photo: Michelle Jamieson

      Michelle Jamieson answered on 18 Jun 2017:

      I wouldn’t want to use their original stuff today, but it has influenced a lot of research over the years, and we wouldn’t be here today without them.

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