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I've started going to Jungian therapy and I'm unsure how to proceed.

I started seeing a transpersonal, jungian psychotherapist very recently. I've gone to about 6, maybe 7 sessions with her. To be honest, I have had some breakthroughs; interesting insights I hadn't been able to realize. The thing is, I don't understand how progress in sessions is supposed to work.

There's never really any follow up in sessions, we just address something that might be on my mind and talk about it for a while. She once told me that the subconscious self manifests itself in many ways, and what might be troubling me at any given time is a symptom of something deeper. She's told me therapy is an organic process and that with time and work, things will become clearer and fall into place.

But I don't understand how? Am I supposed to tell her each session what I want to work on? What I want to talk about? I mean, sometimes we start the session and she'll ask me how my day was, or how I'm feeling, and we'll start analyzing whatever I might answer. Sometimes we get somewhere meaningful, but it feels to me like we're just talking and going off in tangents, since there's no followup or structure.

I've never been to any type of therapy before, I was familiar and liked Jung's work very much, that's why I started going to a jungian therapist. I just don't know if I'm feeling comfortable with this loose approach, or if I should tell her I'd appreciate feeling more "guided" or like I was learning something through Jung's philosophies. Also, we've barely touched on Jungian concepts, only the shadow and barely :/

Posted Feb 16, 2017, 10:37 PM UTC

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