Welcome from the President

I am delighted to welcome you to the official website of the International Association for Analytical Psychology, IAAP. As President of our global organisation, I, along with my fellow Officers, the Executive Committee and our dedicated staff, are committed to advancing the field of Analytical Psychology worldwide.

Our main goals at IAAP are to promote the highest professional, scientific and ethical standards in our association and to ensure that Analytical Psychology is recognised and valued as a vital field of study and practice. Thank you for visiting the IAAP website and we hope you find it informative and interesting.

   President IAAP

Latest News

In response to the recent World Health Organisation (WHO) publication of a Psychological Interventions Implementation Manual that predominantly endorse behavioral therapy (BT) and cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) techniques, for both adults and young people, the IAAP has sent a letter (LINK) that takes a strong stand against limiting the effective treatments for mental health disorders to the prescribed.

The letter is supported by more than 60 members of the IAAP who are all professors or doctors with a connection to a university. The list of supporters can be seen on the Members’ Area of the IAAP website.

We are pleased to announce that The IAAP on August 2nd received a kind response from WHO where they acknowledge the reception of our letter and attach two articles (article 1) (article 2) which they will take into consideration in the next update of their guidelines.

About the IAAP

The International Association for Analytical Psychology, IAAP was founded in 1955 by a group of Jungian Analysts to sustain and promote the work of C. G. Jung. Today the IAAP recognizes 69 Group Members (societies) throughout the world, and around 3500 analysts trained in accordance with standards established by the Association.

Since the late 1990’s the IAAP has been engaged in providing training possibilities for people who live in places where no registered training to become a Jungian Analyst with membership of the IAAP is available. The result of this is that the IAAP now has training facilities and qualified Jungian Analysts in all continents.

The aims of the IAAP are:

  1. To promote the study of Analytical Psychology
  2. To disseminate knowledge of Analytical Psychology
  3. To require the maintenance of high standards of training, practice, and ethical conduct
  4. To hold Congresses.

In addition to the triennial IAAP Congresses, the IAAP also supports international conferences around the world, and during the last years the IAAP has actively taken part in joint conferences with universities in recognition of the importance of the connection to the scientific world. This is also reflected in the growing support by the IAAP of research in the Analytical Psychological field.

The IAAP New Bulletin is a monthly email newsletter. Click on the image above to access the current and previous  issues. Click here for the subscribe form.

News & Announcements

CG Jung & Analytical Psychology

IAAP member analysts have written a series of short articles to introduce the key concept of Analytical Psychology which is the formal name for Jungian psychology.

John Beebe

Psychological Types

The concept of psychological types, which we can define as the regular differences in the way people become aware of and try to cope with their psychological issues, even when they are dealing with challenges to psyche that are similar, is a distinctive contribution of C. G. Jung to the development of depth psychology.

Emilija Kiehl

The Transcendent Function

The transcendent function is one of the core concepts of Jung’s model of the psyche. It is an attempt to explain the phenomenon of psychic change and development. The transcendent function enables a transition from one psychological attitude to another through a dialectical process of integrating the psyche’s conscious and unconscious contents into a third position, which constitutes a new step in the evolution of personality.

Kamala Melik-Akhazarova

Anima and Animus

The concept of Anima/Animus is one of the most popular concepts of Jungian psychology. Originally it was created by C.G. Jung to define the unconscious opposite to the social mask of personality (Persona), thus being an archetype that links the conscious Ego to the unconscious, and an archetypal image that contains all those features and functions that are present in the psyche in a more or less latent form but are not manifested in the conscious life and not available to the conscious ego.

Resources

We are pleased to make the following resources available to the public through our website

Commission by the National Institute of Mental Health the Abstracts of the Collected Works of C.G. Jung were edited by Carrie Lee Rothgeb and Siegfried M. Clemens and originally published in 1978. The book is available in the public domain and all the abstract are viewable on the IAAP website. Click here

The Archive for Research in Archetypal Symbolism is a pictorial and written archive of mythological, ritualistic, and symbolic images from all over the world and from all epochs of human history. The ARAS website also offers a rich library of articles on art and symbols and a concordance that allows you to search C.G. Jung’s Collected Works by word or topic. 

The IAAP is supporting the initiative by Jungian.Directory to build and maintain a searchable catalogue of articles published in Jungian and Jungian related journals. The catalogue is growing and will soon give access to the contents of close to 45 journals. A number of the journal are open access. Access the searchable catalogue here.

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