Even though Jungian Analytical Psychotherapy has a tradition of more than 100 years, little is known about the empirical status of the therapy method. This article gives an overview of the evidence found for Psychodynamic Therapy in general and for Jungian Psychotherapy, on the background of the state of the art in psychotherapy research. Though there is great diversity in study designs, some of which are hampered by strong limitations to internal validity, all of the studies reported here found significant improvements in the dimensions investigated, with effect sizes ranging from moderate to very large. There are even indicators of cost effectiveness of Jungian psychotherapy. The results point towards the effectiveness of Jungian psychotherapy, but there is still a strong need for further research, namely Randomized Controlled Trials (RCTs), to make firm conclusions on efficacy of the method possible. Since Jungian Psychotherapy is an established method in the health care systems of Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Japan and other countries these results confirm the practicability and contribution to the treatment of mental health problems of this method.

The objective of this study is to present the results of Sandplay Therapy (ST) in case of three children with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). A review of the literature on the psychotherapeutic treatment of children with this disorder identified that the psychological technique most frequently used has been Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT). This is to our knowledge the first study to apply ST for such cases. The children were tested before and at the end of their processes by the instruments: psychiatric report; interview with parents; Yale-Brown Obsessive-Compulsive Scale (Y-BOCS); Beck Depression Inventory; Beck Anxiety Inventory and school report. The scenarios were organized in categories and divided in three periods: start, middle, and end. A comparison enabled to observe an increase in positive and decrease in negatives categories at the end of the process. According with the instruments, there was a remission of symptoms of OCD at the end of ST for the three cases.

The main aim of the present study was to investigate forms of aggression among the young generation in contemporary society. In Study 1, Picture Frustration (PF) Study was administrated to a student group (n = 80) and an adult group (n = 80) following the inquiry method of asking for both the verbal response and the inward response toward 24 situations involving frustration. The result of the statistical comparison of the PF scores showed that the student group had a significantly smaller number of extrapunitive responses verbally, but inwardly no significant difference was seen, which suggested that young people tend to suppress aggression rather consciously. In Study 2, Stress-Avoidance responses in which both the verbal and inward response do not directly react to the frustration, or the inward response cancels the aggression expressed verbally, were extracted. The result, that the student group showed significantly more Stress-Avoidance responses, suggested unconscious inhibition and dissociation of aggression in the young generation.

This study aimed to examine the relationship of alexithymia to the House-Drawing-Test and the Room-Drawing-Test, to identify what the Room-Drawing-Test can capture, and which drawing features should be focused when analyzing this test. In total, 433 undergraduate female students were classified into four subgroups based on cluster analysis using the subscale scores of the Japanese version of the 20-item Toronto Alexithymia Scale (TAS-20). Group characteristics were discussed/compared based on their drawings using self-developed analysis indicators. The most alexithymic group showed significant features regarding perspective and space composition in the Room-Drawing-Test; participants had a vague distinction between the internal and external worlds, and faced difficulties to have an integrated perspective toward and to relate to the internal world. The significance of the Room-Drawing-Test when elucidating individuals’ attitudes toward the internal/external worlds and that of focusing on perspective and on the degree of differentiation/elaboration of the interior space when analyzing this test, were highlighted.

In analytical psychology, it is assumed that dreams have attached importance in psychotherapy and focusing on the structure of dreams, which is the dream situation, is useful for dream analysis. This article includes three quantitative studies to show a connection between the Japanese mentality and the dream situations that “The dream-ego sees others” and “Others take the initiative in positive behavior to the dream-ego.” Study 1 compared the rate of each situation in Japanese and German clinical cases. The rate of each situation was significantly higher in Japanese cases than in German cases. Therefore, Study 2 examined dreams with either situation appearing in the Japanese cases. It showed significant differences in the details of the situations when these dreams appeared in the course of therapy. Then, Study 3 examined the rate of each situation also in non-clinical Japanese college students’ dreams. Both situations appeared in non-clinical Japanese students’ dreams, but the rate of “The dream-ego sees others” was significantly higher in Japanese cases than in non-clinical Japanese students’ dreams. The three studies’ results suggest that both situations are characteristics of Japanese dreams and may connect with Japanese mentality or psychological themes.

Secondary traumatization has implications for healthcare professionals and the quality of care, this construct including compassion fatigue, vicarious trauma, and burnout, but they are distinct different constructs. The aim of this review is to examine the psychological factors that characterize the domains of secondary traumatization, differentiating them from compassion fatigue, vicarious trauma and burnout in healthcare professionals. We identified eligible papers, a systematic literature search on PubMed has been performed, 681 publications have been found, the total number of relevant publications was reduced to 18. According to the examined literature, this situation may be highly distressing for healthcare assistants, and entails a series of negative consequences. This review suggested that healthcare professionals are at risk of secondary traumatization, for the impact of personal distress, and a variety of stressful factors and negative affect promote this condition. The distress that results from dissatisfaction, and is associated with negative cognitions and negative mood. Finally, the psychological variables of the quality of professional life identified by scientific literature are eight and include: compassion satisfation and fatigue, burnout, distress, self-compassion, psychological inflexibility, empathy, ability to take another people’s perspective.