Jung's typology and classification of the psychotherapies.

Jung's Typology and Classification of the Psychotherapies Review by: James S. Witzig, Ph.D. EFFORTS TO CLASSIFY the psychotherapies have been in part prompted by the need for a more scientific approach to therapeutic assignment than is now the case. A. H. Maslow comments on this problem: One way of summarising my impression of these therapeutic groups in relationship to individual psychotherapy is to come back to the old conclusion that many have come to that it's senseless arguing about group therapy versus individual therapy. For one thing, there are many kinds of each serving different purposes, different kinds of people, and so on. Secondly, they do have different functions in certain respects, and so our question then transforms itself into for what problems, under what kinds of circumstances, for what kind of people, for what kinds of goals, should we use what kind of group therapy or what kind of individual therapy, and in what combination or alternation (MASLOW 21, p. 178).