Thomas B. Kirsch, M.D.

Origins of Analytical Psychology in the United States

Workshop: Saturday, February 10, 2001, 10 to 2:30 p.m.
Good Shepherd Center, Room 202, 4649 Sunnyside Ave. N., Seattle
$30 members, $40 nonmembers, $25 student/senior members, $35 student/senior nonmembers

Jung's analytical psychology has developed in many places in the United States and in the world. Much of the spread has been during the past quarter century. As we enter into the twenty-first century, there has been a tendency not to remember how analytical psychology first developed in this country. It is the purpose of this workshop to briefly review the founding of analytical psychology in three areas, New York, San Francisco, and Los Angeles. These were the three areas in the United States where Jung's psychology developed during his lifetime and, as a result, he had an influence on how these professional groups developed. In these localities the founders had their analyses with Jung, which had an important bearing on how each professional society developed. Implications for the state of analytical psychology today will be presented.

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Thomas B. Kirsch, M.D. was born in London, England, the son of James and Hilde Kirsch—two individuals who had their analyses with Jung in the 1930s and who were co-founders of the Los Angeles Jungian movement. Dr. Kirsch is a graduate of Reed College, Yale University School of Medicine, Stanford Department of Psychiatry, and the C.G. Jung Institute of San Francisco. He is a former president of the Jung Institute in San Francisco and past president of the International Association for Analytical Psychology (IAAP). Dr. Kirsch is the author of numerous papers on dreams, the analytical process, the history of Jung and analytical psychology. Routledge in England published his most recent book, The Jungians, during 2000.

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