d extensive. Although he was a theoretical psychologist and practicing clinician for most of his life, many of his studies extend into other realms of the humanities: from comparative religion and philosophy, to criticism of art and literature. While these Jungian ideas are seldom mentioned in college psychology courses, they are often explored in humanities courses" (ibid.).
It is important to understand Jung's theories about the psyche, the mind, the emotions, and mental health in order to appreciate his approach to psychotherapy. Realizing that what he and Freud termed the "unconscious" was not easily subject to the experimentation and quantification of the physical sciences, he turned towards the relative imprecision but rich metaphorical analogies of the humanities in an attempt to understand and elucidate human mental processes and the psychopathologies he was confron
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