ABOUT JUNGIAN PSYCHOLOGY
Jungian psychology is an open field of ongoing inquiry that draws upon theoretical inferences from many disciplines as well as pragmatic encounters with people in different settings to discover factors that influence the human psyche and the psyche’s impact on self and others. Recognizing both the individuality of each person and the shared commonality of the human condition, this psychology, sometimes called analytical or complex psychology, seeks to understand both the distinctive ways the psyche is experienced by each human subject and the archetypal, cultural, and personal factors that color human thought and emotion. Starting with the researches of the Swiss psychiatrist Dr. C. G. Jung, regular types of consciousness (“psychological types”) and patterns of unconsciousness (“archetypes”) have been identified by Jungian authors and form the basis for Jungian Theory. Jungian analysis, a clinical method for the therapeutic understanding of the relations between conscious and unconscious has become a widely respected healing practice that is taught to psychotherapists all over the world. Formal training in Jungian analysis is available at many Jungian institutes, including this one in San Francisco. The overarching goal of Jungian psychology is not just to provide either an intellectual theory of psyche or a particular brand of psychotherapy, but to foster an adequate attitude toward the self-experience of the individual. Both inside and outside the consulting room, Jungian psychology asks how well the needs of psyche are being met and considers this focus to be essential to the development of a truly humane consciousness in our time.
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THE MISSION OF THE INSTITUTE
Analytical psychology is the theoretical foundation for Jungian analysis, a healing practice that serves the basic human need for psychological consciousness and growth.
The C.G. Jung Institute of San Francisco was founded to advance a viewpoint vital to the conscious, ethical practice and utilization of analytical psychology and to disseminate knowledge central to that end.
The Institute trains psychotherapists to become Jungian analysts and maintains a collegial society to provide continuing education and ethical review for member analysts.
It offers education and information to other professionals and the general public and promotes research about Jungian analysis and psychotherapy.
It maintains the Virginia Allan Detloff Library and the Archive for Research in Archetypal Symbolism as educational resources.
Through the James Goodrich Whitney Clinic, Jungian psychotherapy is provided on a sliding-scale basis.
The Institute
recognizes that the
potential of wholeness
and individuation
depends on psychological
development that in turn
is supported or hampered
by collective attitudes
and laws. With this
understanding, the C.G.
Jung Institute of San
Francisco supports in
principle efforts that
promote universal human
rights.
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PROFESSIONAL STANDARDS
AND PROCEDURES
The C. G. Jung Institute
of San Francisco
promulgates Ethical
Standards for its
analysts and candidates
and maintains a standing
committee on
Professional Standards.
Any member of the public
may request a copy of
the Institute’s Ethical
Standards and of the
Professional Standards
Committee Procedures by
contacting the
Professional Standards
Committee chairperson.
To identify the current
chair and to find his or
her contact information,
please consult the
Institute Leadership and
Committees and
Jungian Analysts &
Psychotherapists
pages of this website.
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COMMITMENT TO DIVERSITY
The C.G. Jung Institute of San Francisco welcomes people of differing races, colors, national or ethnic origins, sexual orientations and genders. The Institute does not practice discrimination in hiring, in application to or admission to training or membership, or in access to any of its programs and services on any of these grounds.
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ORGANIZATION AND FINANCES
After almost twenty years of existence, the Society of Jungian Analysts of Northern California formally incorporated in 1964 as a California non-profit public benefit society: The C.G. Jung Institute of San Francisco. We are also a federally-recognized 501(c)(3) tax-exempt educational non-profit organization. Our Board of Governors, elected by the membership, is responsible for the Institute's mission, programs, planning, and legal & financial welfare.
Our income derives from analyst-members' dues, candidates' tuition, fees for service from our extended education, clinic, library, Jung Journal, and ARAS programs as well as regulated income from our endowment and contributions from our donors.
Our finances are audited independently each year. Copies of our most recent audit are available free of charge to members of the public.
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ABOUT OUR LOGO:
Four snails travelling in a circle around a center point
Back in the 1970's, Dr. Joseph Henderson's wife Helena wanted to set up a dance studio with her friend Delores Belsen. Delores' husband, Larry Dubbs, who was an artist and graphic designer, produced a circular design of four snails. When Dr. Henderson saw it, he recognized that, while it was not suitable for dancers, it was perfect for analysts. It was quickly adopted by the Board of Governors as our Institute logo. The broad foot of the snail is sensation and its antennae are intuition, moving slowly around a center. The logo has often been invoked as a sign of our swift-moving and decisive organizational style...
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