Becoming a Jungian Analyst Reflections on Practice, Training and Research

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Digitalization and Analytical Psychology

August 27th-29th 2026, University College London

Inner Bridges: Analytical Work with Children, Adolescents, and Young Adults

June 4 – 7, 2026, Bucharest, Romania

Our Ancient Souls Symbol and Meaning in Creation Myths of the Maya and Aztec Cultures

March 2-8, 2026 in Merida, Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico

7th Conference of Analysis & Activism

October 30 – November 1, 2026, in Mexico City

Pilar Amezaga
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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.

Emilija Kiehl

The Transcendent Function

Aware that the idea that the psyche possesses a capacity to transcend the realm of personal subjectivity could attract criticism from the reductionist quarters of the psychoanalytic movement, in his 1916 essay, Jung writes: “There is nothing mysterious or metaphysical about the term ‘transcendent function’. It means a psychological function comparable in its own way to the mathematical function of the same name, which is a function of real and imaginary numbers. The psychological ‘transcendent function’ arises from the union of the conscious and unconscious contents” (CW 8, par. 131).

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. Jung focused on the basic principle that in relating to the psyche, we are what we are observing. Therefore, our “personal equation” (Shamdasani 2003, pp. 30–31) must be taken into account when we look at our complexes and at the complexes of others who are sufficiently significant to us to become, in effect, parts of our own psychological life.

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.

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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