Towards individuation:

Chris Milton

doi:10.9791/ajpanz.2010.10

Chris Milton

DOI: https://doi.org/10.9791/ajpanz.2010.10

Abstract

Jungian theory and practice, more properly called analytical psychology, like psycho-analysis (Ogden, 1994, 1996, 1997), has dethroned the notion of a central conscious subject and replaced it with the notion of the centrality of a dialectic between consciousness and the unconscious. This shift away from the notion of a central conscious subject is scribed in the idea of individuation. Indeed analytical psychology is itself centred on the notion of individuation and, as Brooke (1991a, p. 88) has so forthrightly put it: 'Individuation is not "individualism'". How then does this challenge to individualism find expression in analytical psychology and what are the implications for analytic practice?

Author Biography

Chris Milton

As recorded in 2010.

Dr Chris Milton is a Jungian analyst and clinical psychologist in private practice. He trained in South Africa and migrated to New Zealand in 2002. He is a Training Analyst with ANZSJA, serves on the Editorial Board of the online Indo- Pacific Journal of Phenomenology, and was appointed by the New Zealand Minister of Health as a founder member of the Psychotherapists Board of Aotearoa New Zealand. Chris has taught, examined and supervised in psychiatry, clinical psychology, psychoanalysis and analytical psychology in both institute and university settings. He currently devotes his time to adult analysis and supervision of clinicians, but he has worked psychotherapeutically with adults as well as with children, adolescents and their families in both the private and public sectors. Chris has published in the area of infant mental health and psychoanalytic processes. He also maintains an interest in integral psychology, spirituality and transpersonal psychology.

Towards individuation

A Jungian view on being a body and on being together

Abstract

Author Biography