My husband likes to prowl the Web looking for odd websites, like Cover Browser which has images of hundreds of magazine covers. As he was browsing the site, looking at what were the covers of various magazines are the years we were each born. And found found this one from Time in 1956:
I love the image suggesting as it does the depth of Jung's theory, but even more that Jung was considered important enough to be on the cover and that theory in psychology and psychiatry was worth knowing about. Contrast that to today when the emerging paradigm, if indeed it is not the prevailing one, is that emotional problems indicate brain illness which should be medicated. There is much to think about in that change -- about who we are, at how much we are now shaped by marketing forces, and the decline of theory as important as an underpinning to treatment. Empiricism rules now. Outcome is more important than cause. And, I suspect, outcomes is more about relatively short duration for treatment and funding long-term efficacy.