Carl Gustav Jung was born on the 26th of July 1875 in Kesswil, a small village in the Swiss canton of Thurgau. He entered the world as the first surviving son after two stillbirths and the brief life of a brother named Paul who died days after birth in 1873.
What year did Carl Jung break his friendship with Sigmund Freud?
Tensions between Carl Jung and Sigmund Freud reached their peak in 1912 and resulted in a complete break by early January 1913 when Freud proposed they abandon their private relationship entirely. They met personally for the last time in September 1913 at the Fourth International Psychoanalytical Congress in Munich.
When was Carl Jung's Red Book published to the public?
The manuscript known as Liber Novus or The Red Book remained unpublished until its release on the 7th of October 2009 by W.W. Norton & Company. Fewer than about two dozen people ever saw this manuscript before its publication despite Jung creating it over sixteen years starting around 1915.
Which expedition did Carl Jung lead to East Africa in 1925?
In October 1925 Carl Jung embarked on the Bugishu Psychological Expedition to East Africa accompanied by Peter Baynes and George Beckwith. They traveled through Kenya and Uganda reaching slopes of Mount Elgon where Jung hoped to increase understanding of primitive psychology through conversations with culturally isolated residents.
How did Carl Jung influence the formation of Alcoholics Anonymous?
Carl Jung treated American patient Rowland Hazard III whose spiritual recovery influenced Ebby Thacher who then told William Griffith Wilson about the Oxford Group allowing Wilson awareness of Hazard's experience indirectly finding its way into the original twelve-step program. The establishment of Alcoholics Anonymous occurred on the 10th of June 1935 in Akron Ohio quarter century after death of philosopher William James whose ideas influenced both men.