Character Chromatography

Chemical extraction as a metaphor for psychotherapy

This image illustrates a connection between personality and chemical transformation (Source)

It took a creative genius on the level of Carl Jung to discover, in the ancient art of alchemy, an instructive metaphor for psychotherapy: to assert that the healing soul, like the basic starting materials of the alchemical technique, is transformed by a process no less noble and mystical than the one that searched for gold and elixirs…