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1875–1961
SWISS PHYSICIAN, PSYCHIATRIST
UNIVERSITY OF BASEL, M.D., 1900
Brief Overview
Carl Gustaf Jung (1875–1961) is considered to be, together with Sigmund Freud and Alfred Adler, one of the three outstanding figures in the first generation of the psychoanalytic movement. Jung was the son of a Swiss Reformed pastor and spent all of his childhood and adolescence in Switzerland. He was trained as a medical doctor at the University of Basel. Originally intending to become a surgeon or internist, Jung decided to specialize in psychiatry within a year of the publication of Freud's groundbreaking book, The Interpretation of Dreams. Jung quickly put Freud's theories to work during his residency at the Burghölzli, a mental hospital for schizophrenics in the city of Zurich. Jung's early defense of Freud's findings led to a friendship that ended with Jung's publication of Symbols of Transformation, a work that indicated...
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