Gerald R. Baron
1 min readFeb 24, 2023

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Thanks John. Did you mean moot? Or mute as in silent?

I'll assume moot. Jung was a psychoanalyst doing both original research but also helping patients. It seems from Graham's post that the intention of the process or path of Individuation was a kind of therapeutic process he advocated to help patients suffering from mental health issues find healing and recovery. My question was if the concept he developed and Graham was reporting or promoting of adopting or incorporating the evil or darkness he found within himself in order to achieve wholeness was working for himself or his patients. This seems to me to be a basis for much of modern psychological therapy. Accept who you are, the good, the bad, the ugly. There is value in accepting ourselves. But I don't think this approach has resulted in the mental health improvement that Jung might have wanted or expected. My suggestion is the biblical approach of finding release from the evil and the guilt associated with participating in it has proven be far more effective if one compares it on a therapeutic basis. So, why can they not be compared?

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Gerald R. Baron
Gerald R. Baron

Written by Gerald R. Baron

Dawdling at the intersection of faith, science, philosophy and theology. Author of It Was My Turn, a Vietnam story.

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