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When Freud and Jung parted ways around 1912, a basic division occurred in terms of where the two evolving thinkers and their subsequent followers focused their attention. Freud focused on the evolution of the psyche from birth to adulthood and the repetition of early emotional patterns into adult life. Analysis was the unraveling of a tapestry of childhood memories and fantasies and a reweaving of the threads in the context of a reasoned and informed dialogue and relationship. Jung, and his followers, focused on the adult's drive to wholeness, integration, individuation, and spiritual development. The former camp has become the basis for modern psychotherapy, focusing on pathology and attempting to alleviate disturbances in one's emotional life or functioning. Jung and his camp have evolved into schools of humanistic and transpersonal psychology that have grown rapidly in the last 30 years but have done so largely outside the world of professional therapeutic psychology. More recently the two camps have started to unite and enrich each other, such as occurred at a conference on Buddhism and psychoanalysis in New York City in 1994. Modern theorists such as Kenneth Wilber (1986, 1995) and Michael Washburn (1994, 1995) discuss a spectrum of consciousness and lay out basic