Analytical psychology is the psychological tradition developed by Carl Jung, concerned with conscious life, unconscious patterns and meaning expressed through dreams, images and relationships.
It asks more than how to stop an inconvenient behaviour. A conflict can also reveal something the familiar account of yourself has no room for.
What doesn’t fit the person you’ve learned to be?
You are proud of managing alone. Then a wish for care starts making itself difficult to ignore.
You could treat the wish as a lapse in independence. You could also ask why independence has been defined so narrowly that receiving help threatens it.
That example illustrates a question, not a diagnosis. Jungian traditions differ, and their ideas have histories worth knowing rather than flattening into personality labels.
I AWAKE draws on some neighbouring conversations about image and inner life while creating its own guided experiences. Carl Jung introduces the person behind this tradition; individuation looks at becoming less confined to the self you already recognise.
The International Association for Analytical Psychology’s Carl Gustav Jung places Jung’s ideas in the history of his work. Start there for the tradition itself, rather than a collection of slogans attributed to him.