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According to jung, modern psychotherapists often take on the role once provided by

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Jung often compared the role of psychotherapists to that offered by the clergy. Jung was saying that psychotherapists essentially acted as a confessional a lot of the time. He even authored essays about the subject, regarding how certain aims of psychotherapists required an almost religious experience.
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