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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 81 Group Members (societies) throughout the world, and around 4’000 analysts trained in accordance with standards established by the Association.
Since the late 1990’s the IAAP has provided training possibilities for people who live in places where no registered training to become a Jungian Analyst is available. Consequently the IAAP has now training facilities and qualified Jungian Analysts in all continents.
The IAAP supports projects provided by Jungian Analysts, candidates and routers supporting victims of
natural disasters, pandemics, conflict, poverty, and oppression.
This issue of the IAAP Bulletin is dedicated to Art and Culture. Writing from Uruguay, I immediately think of Joaquín Torres García (1874–1949), our most internationally recognized artist and the creator of “Universalismo Constructivo”. For Torres García, art was fundamentally symbolic. Here his thinking resonates remarkably with C. G. Jung, for whom the symbol also points beyond what consciousness already knows.
STATEMENT FROM THE IAAP
The International Association for Analytical Psychology (IAAP) expresses its heartfelt solidarity with our colleagues, members, and all those affected by the recent earthquake in Venezuela.
During this difficult time, our thoughts are with everyone who has suffered loss, uncertainty, or hardship, and we extend our sincere hopes for the safety, recovery, and resilience of the Venezuelan people and our Jungian community.
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 Pilar Amezaga
STATEMENT FROM THE IAAP
The International Association for Analytical Psychology (IAAP) expresses its heartfelt solidarity with our colleagues, members, and all those affected by the recent earthquake in Venezuela. During this difficult time, our thoughts are with everyone who has suffered loss, uncertainty, or hardship, and we extend our sincere hopes for the safety, recovery, and resilience of the Venezuelan people and our Jungian community.
Conferences in the IAAP
A main purpose of the IAAP is to disseminate knowledge of Analytical Psychology and to hold Congresses.
In the slideshow to the right we post upcoming international conferences and in the CALENDAR dropdown at the top-bar, we post these Conferences as well as Online Lectures and Seminars and Other Events
In this issue of the News Bulletin we bring a presentation and an interview with Linda Carter by Stephen Garratt.
George Bright is a British Analytical Psychologist with more than three decades of private practice in West London.
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.
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.
The word symbol comes from the Greek word “symballein”, which means to throw together, to join together. A symbol, which is “symbolon”, from its conceptual history, is something composed: the visible something of an invisible, ideal reality. The consequence: everything that exists in the world, everything that we experience, means something, has a deeper meaning, refers to something profound.
Jung noted the recurrence of certain images that he observed in himself, in his patients, in ancient art, and in myths and fairy tales. He postulated that we all have a common experience of universal images, shared since primordial times (referred to as “Urbild” in German), which he called archetypal images.
Jung’s fundamental insight was that the alchemists were projecting unconscious psychic processes onto the transformation of matter in the laboratory. In alchemy he saw the bridge between analytical psychology and early forms of thought, such as Gnosticism – to reach ‘a point outside our own time’ in order to understand how deep change occurs. Alchemy secretly operated in the background of collective consciousness for hundreds, if not thousands of years, without ever reaching its goal of creating gold from lead — this fact underlies its powerful psychological draw.
XXIII Zurich Congress 2025
Stasbourg – France 2024
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.
