In this issue of the News Bulletin we bring a presentation and an interview with Arthur Niesser by Stephen Garratt. Please enjoy the presentation and interview below.

Arthur Niesser is a Jungian analyst, a former general practitioner, and a co-editor of the Journal of Analytical Psychology. He is a member and supervisor of the Association of Jungian Analysts (AJA) in London, of which he was Chair from 2014 to 2018, and a member of the C. G. Jung Institut in Stuttgart.

He trained first in Stuttgart and then, after moving to North Wales, with AJA in London — an unusual double formation that has shaped a career spent bridging traditions: medicine and the pastoral, German and British Jungian practice, the archetypal and the empirical.

He grew up in southern Germany, in a Catholic household, and considered the priesthood in his early teens before the pendulum swung towards medicine, “always with a bit of a pastoral aspect to it.” He first encountered Jung as a medical student, in a book bought at a railway-station bookshop on the way back from skiing in the Alps. For most of his working life he combined a full-time general practice in a small town in North Wales with a small analytic practice; since the pandemic he has lived in Germany and offers supervision online. His particular interest is in what neuroscience can and cannot ground in analytical psychology — not as a reduction, he insists, but as a source of “authenticity” — and, latterly, in challenging psychosomatic writing that comes “very close to blaming the patient.” ….

Click HERE to read a biographical overview of Arthur Niesser
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