Central-European Conference on Childhood and Adolescence

June 5 – 8, 2025, Belgrade, Serbia

Joint IAAP/ LAAP/ Vilnius University Conference

11 - 13 April, 2025 Vilnius University, Lithuania

the 2nd Child and Adolescent Conference in Asia

March 15 – 16, 2025 in Taipei

XXIII International Congress of Analytical Psychology

24 - 29 August, 2025, Zurich, Switzerland

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.

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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.

Patricia Berry

Archetype

Archetype is certainly one of the first notions we associate with the work of C.G. Jung. However, what Jung meant by this notion can be quite confusing. Part of the difficulty comes from his having used the term in a number of different ways, at different times, in varying contexts. Jung did not think in a typically linear, logical manner the way many other serious thinkers had done. Even Freud, with his more narrative, logical style is at times easier to follow than Jung. Jung did not tend to return to earlier notions or make corrections to them as had Freud on occasion. Jung was simply not that kind of thinker.

Walter Boechat

The Collective Unconscious

“The collective unconscious is a part of the psyche which can be negatively distinguished from the personal unconscious by the fact that it does not, like the latter, owe its existence to personal experience and consequently is not a personal acquisition. While the personal unconscious is made up essentially of contents which have at one time been conscious but which have disappeared from consciousness through having been forgotten or repressed, the contents of the collective unconscious have never been in consciousness, and therefore have never been individually acquired, but owe their existence exclusively to heredity. Whereas the personal unconscious consists for the most part of complexes, the content of the collective unconscious is made up essentially of archetypes.” (CW 9.1, §88).

Murray Stein
Murray Stein

Individuation

The basic definition of the term “individuation,” as used in analytical psychology, is: Self– realization. This means, the gradual incarnation of potentials housed within the Self at birth and realized in the course of an entire lifetime. This is sometimes called “the acorn theory” of psychological development. A person becomes in life what they have brought with them as potential at birth. We are born with a Self, and it takes a lifetime to bring it to more or less full realization. Individuation is a process that unfolds in stages of psychological development.

Videos

C.G. Jung 1959

Face to Face - Carl Gustav Jung (1959)
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Face to Face, John Freeman interview.
Reference: John Freeman interviewing Carl Gustav Jung : Face to Face. BBC, TV 1959

The Buenos Aires Congress 2022

Stasbourg – France 2024

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Resources

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

Abstracts of CG Jung's Collected Works

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

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. 

Search Jungian Journal Articles

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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