DGAP Symposium 2025

March 21 – March 22, 2025 at the Sankt Georgen University of Applied Sciences

Jungian Odyssey 2025

May 17–24, 2025, Seeblick Hotel, Emmetten, Switzerland

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

In the Spotlight – Tom Kelly

Tom Kelly is a name synonymous with leadership, collaboration, and deep engagement within the International Association for Analytical Psychology (IAAP). As past president of the

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February 27, 2025

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.

Sonoko Toyoda

Persona

We develop our personality not only so that it becomes rooted in our nature but also so that it is adequate to the social and environmental demands around us. Jung named this socially adapted aspect of the personality “persona”. The origin of this Latin word goes back to the masks worn by actors in antiquity. The mask, or persona, looks like ourselves, but it is largely influenced by the outer world; therefore, it is a kind of compromise between the individual and society.

Natalia Serebrennikova

The Shadow

Initially, the shadow is everything that the ego-consciousness does not know about itself, the entire unconscious part of the personality. The shadow represents “a tight passage, a narrow door, whose painful constriction no one is spared who goes down to the deep well.”i As the personality develops, the shadow gradually differentiates into individual and collective one (familial, social group, cultural, archetypal).

Martin Schmidt

The Self

Jung’s thinking about the self separates Jungian analytical psychology from other psychoanalytical schools. He uses the concept of the self to portray his understanding of who we are and the concept of individuation to describe who we can become.

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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