A depth-oriented approach to understanding the unconscious, developed by Carl Gustav Jung.

Analytical psychology approaches psychotherapy and depth analysis in the tradition established by the Swiss psychiatrist, C. G. Jung.

As originally defined by Jung, it is distinguished by a focus on the role of symbolic and spiritual experiences in human life, and rests on Jung's theory of archetypes and the existence of a deep psychic space or collective unconscious.

Following Jung's original work ongoing research in this tradition incorporated findings from other disciplines and schools of depth psychology, making analytical psychology a vibrant and growing field of inquiry and therapeutic innovation.