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Competencies Based in the Jungian Tradition
A)Changing deep psychodynamic structures
A competent Jungian based practitioner must be able to:
1.Identify the fundamental unconscious building blocks of one’s personality
2.Question ones’ fixed attitudes, identifications, and rigid psychodynamics underlying ego-consciousness
3.Accept the lack of egoic control over ones’ evolutionary path, and instead stay receptive to the emerging unconscious
4.Heal old neurotic symptomology through facilitation of holistic Individuation of the Self, what Jung calls ‘curing the soul’
5.Enliven the repressed parts of personality and archetypal contents which exists beneath ones’ defensive structures
6.Evoke the tension of psychic opposites, and find dialectical resolution within the complementarity of the polarities.
7.Incorporate a ‘feeling centre’ in which psychic and somatic experiences are integrated
8.Incorporate emerging Shadow elements, and integrate its contents into more holistic self-image and self presentation
9.Integrate repressed psychic elements in favor of enlivening the Inferior Function into a more balanced psychic field
10.Accept movement forward from ones’ prior life structure, including the potential loss of outmoded career and relationships
B)Healing Trauma
A competent Jungian based practitioner must be able to:
1.Recognize the four ‘stages of treatment’ (confession, elucidation/interpretation, education and transformation) within the evolutionary process
2.Re-experience and integrate traumatic incidence from childhood into a more evolved form, thus facilitating healing of these emerging traumatic and development dysfunctions
3.Surrender to the loss of old egoic structures, and face the loss of identity, and accept and manage the symptoms of anxiety, depression and inflation which is experienced as a part of this loss
4.Be aware of and manage the influx of energy and vitality, and creatively explore the new relationships with life’s challenges that emerge from these changes
C)Emergence of Transcendent Function
A competent Jungian based practitioner must be able to:
1.Develop an evolved ego that is alert but not overly conscious or critical; receptive, yet discriminating about emerging psychic contents; knowledgeable without being inflated or dogmatic; stable but flexible.
2.Integrate the repressed self-image that emerges into consciousness through loosening one’s grip on a fixed ego-consciousness
3.Identify the psyche’s will to bring repressed psychic material to consciousness
4.Assimilate the emerging Self with a more reflexive ego-consciousness
5.Be aware and accepting of synchronistic events which manifest when the Self begins to emerge, including the acceptance of negative synchronicities
6.Accept the existential, transpersonal, and sometimes threatening nature of the emergence of the Self
7.Recognize the emergence of the existential, archetypal layers of Self and not take their intense psychic manifestation as a literalization
8.Accept the archetypal and spiritual concerns with existential meaninglessness and psychic death experience
9.Recognize the mythic evolutionary storylines emerging within and amongst the many subpersonalities of ones psyche
10.Be able to develop a relationship between the Ego and Self, as a literary character does to an author