Jung on the difference between psychiatry and psychotherapy (the training analysis)

"With cultivated and intelligent patients the psychiatrist needs more than merely professional knowledge.  he must understand, aside from all theoretical assumptions, what really motivates the patient.  Otherwise he stirs up unnecessary resistances.  What counts, after all, is not whether a theory is corroborated, but whether the patient grasps himself as an individual.  This, however, is not possible without reference to the collective views, concerning which the doctor ought to be informed.  For that, mere medical training does not suffice, for the horizon of the human psyche embraces infinitely more than the limited purview of the doctor's consulting room.

The psyche is distinctly more complicated and inaccessible than the body.  it is, so to speak, the half of the world which comes into existence only when we become conscious of it.  For that reason the psyche is not only a personal but a world problem, and the psychiatrist has to deal with an entire world.

Nowadays we can see as never before that the peril which threatens all of us comes not from nature, but from man, from the psyches of the individual and the mass.  The psychic aberration of man is the danger.  Everything depends upon whether or not the psyche functions properly...

The psychotherapist, however, must understand not only the patient; it is equally important that he should understand himself.  For that reason the sine qua non is the analysis of the analyst, what is called the training analysis.  The patient's treatment begins with the doctor, so to speak.  Only if the doctor knows how to cope with himself and his own problems will he be able to teach the patient to do the same.  only then.  In the training analysis the doctor must learn to know his own psyche and to take it seriously.  if he cannot do that, the patient will not learn either.  he will lose his portion of his psyche just as the doctor has lost that portion of his psyche which he had not learned to understand.  it is not enough, therefore, for the training analysis to consist in acquiring a system of concepts.  The analysand must realise that it concerns himself, that the training analysis is a bit of real life and is not a method which can be learned from rote.  The student who does not grasp that fact in his own training analysis will have to pay dearly for the failure later on."