| | Carl Jung: the Madame Blavatsky of psychotherapy Anthony Daniels |
 | | Jung sensibly believed that chronic psychosis was probably caused by some as yet undiscovered injury of the brain, possibly by an internal or external toxin, since it is not very plausible that a person should be unable to talk sense for more than half a century as a result of some minor psychological trauma. |
| | Jung would have understood this, as modern check-list or decision-tree doctors would not: though it is perhaps worth pointing out that it was the man’s tendency to psychotic mythologizing that resulted in the impoverished life from the true appreciation of which he had to be protected in the first place. |
| | Jung’s first choice of career after his graduation as a doctor was as a surgeon, but he needed a salary in order to pay back the loans that had kept his family afloat during his studies, and surgeons-in-training were unpaid. |
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