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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.
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.
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.
In this News Bulletin we bring a portrait and an interview with John Hill, who for many years have had a strong connection to Eastern
In this News Bulletin we bring a portrait and an interview with our esteemed colleague, Luigi Zoja, President of the IAAP from 1998 – 2001.
We are delighted in this News Bulletin to bring a portrait and an interview with Eva Pattis Zoja, one of our most wellknown and influential
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.
Despite our acquired knowledge and progress, it is still hard for each and every one of us to truly and deeply get into contact with the unconscious and face it, as it were, on equal footing. But Jung tells us that it is possible to reach this deep and real inner confrontation. It is through Active Imagination that he himself faced the power of the unconscious. The intensity of this experience took Jung to the threshold of deep psychological-existential crisis in his life during the period between 1912 and 1920.
The self is the: ‘archetype of orientation and meaning’ (Jung 1963, para 224). Like all archetypes, he saw it as having two polarities: a material/physical pole and a spiritual/psychological one. At the physical pole, it is easy to see that we are connected to all matter as we are composed of the same atoms and held together by the same energy. At the spiritual pole, our meaningful connection to others is expressed in numinous experiences, the transference of feelings (a core feature of analysis) and synchronicities.
Objects from the world of perception can become symbols, a ring, for instance. But they are only superficial objects. They contain hints of what is hidden, of what is beneath the surface. The background can be very mysterious: an expression for the completely different, even the unfathomable of life, which fills us with curiosity and longing. So: a ring is an object, but it also symbolizes, for example, a deep, mysterious connection with a certain person.
C.G. Jung 1959
The Buenos Aires Congress 2022
The Vienna Congress 2019
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.
