Analytical therapy consists of regular dialogue from a therapeutic, existential or developmental perspective. Jungian analysis is interactive in its nature and encourages creative work. It sees the unconscious mind as a source of energy. The unconscious is the active and creative part of the psyche.

Jungian, or analytical, psychology was born concurrently with Freudian psychoanalysis. Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1962) was particularly interested in the existential questions of the latter part of human life. He coined the expression ”individuation” for a person’s path of becoming oneself. The Jungian method is interested in dreams, fairy tales, images and myths. In a sense, it is focused on the construction of our own individual myth. Through therapy, an individual’s self-understanding grows and it becomes possible to view one’s life from several different perspectives.

Analytical therapy can be used in treatment of psychiatric disorders and as a part of rehabilitation (e.g. personality disorders, depression, psychoses), also when a patient already has a diagnosis and undergoes psychiatric treatment. Therapy helps in encountering trauma or problems in early, infantile attachment. Often the motive for therapy can be life crises (divorce, illness, death, unemployment, mid-life crisis) or different symptoms that impede everyday life.