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

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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.

Heba Zaphiriou-Zarifi

Amplification

As a child I had a wooden Babushka doll, exquisitely painted. Her design was captivating: a single figurine, containing a multiplicity of smaller dolls gradually decreasing in size, each embedded in another. Revealing a primacy of connection between them, each of the successive dolls seemed like an intensification, or magnifying, of the former, contiguously evoking one another. In crescendo each portrayed the idiosyncrasies of the others. In decrescendo it simplified them, ultimately revealing the tiniest doll nestled within. This indivisible-kernel doll was enigmatic, intensely charged with essence. As a prototype, she gave purpose to the layers of dolls shaped around her.

Yasuhiro Tanaka

Dreams

Studying these articles, we find that one of the most central theses in Jung’s dream-psychology is that “…it [the dream] does not conceal, but it teaches.”(CW 8, par. 471). Of course, this can be regarded as an antithesis to Freud’s famous thesis, “The dream is the (disguised) fulfillment of a (suppressed, repressed) wish,” that is, “the dream conceals.”

Nancy Krieger

The Theory of Complexes

In the years from 1896 to 1898, while still at university in Basle, Jung attended séances given by his cousin. He was not interested in the spiritualistic aspect of these sessions, but was researching dissociation. He was one of several psychologists doing similar research at this time. Pierre Janet and Jean-Martin Charcot (France), Frederic Myers (England), William James (USA), and Theodor Flournoy (Geneva), are several psychologists/psychiatrists who were working with similar cases of spiritualism and mediums. This was not an esoteric investigation of spirits, but psychological research into the appearance of different personalities during somnambulistic/dissociated states.

Videos

C.G. Jung 1959

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

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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