For many MBTI® and Type practitioners, the term “individuation” is not something new. It was a term coined by Jung to denote a point where we are able to integrate the opposites that live within all of us. And in so doing, we become the person that previously lived in potential. When this happens, we are now that individual fulfilling our own unique promise. Living from our true “I Am”!

Jung was born in 1875, the son of a Protestant minister. He began his academic career in the field of medicine and eventually specialised in psychiatry.

In 1912, he broke away from Freud (the Father of Psychology) in a major way. This enabled him to branch out and explore concepts such individuation, synchronicity and also the theory of psychological type. 

This theory of Psychological Type was a key influence on Isabel Briggs Myers and formed the basis of what we currently know to be the MBTI®.