The psychology of Jung #945921

The origin of the new psychology, with its technic universally known as psycho-analysis, lies in the effort which man has always made to cure those ills “not of the body.” When we speak of the ills of the “soul,” we do not, however, mean that the mind is not a part of the body. We merely mean that there is a difference, for instance, between the illness that might arise from receiving bad news, and that which was caused, say, by being knocked down by a motor car. The first we call a mental ill, a spiritual malady, the second a physical.
The old shaman of the savage tribe did not only attempt to cure gangrene and malaria and sore throat; he also treated people who were “possessed by demons” or had “lost their souls”; he treated people who had lost hope, who were despairing, who wanted a charm to conquer the object of love or hate, who desired success, who heard voices, saw visions and were afraid to live.