Australian and New Zealand Society of Jungian Analysts

Members of the Australian and New Zealand Society of Jungian Analysts are usually called analytical psychologists or Jungian analysts. They have been trained to help people engage with and consider those unconscious forces that affect everyone’s life and relationships to some degree.

Their work is based on insights and theories about the nature of self, developed by Carl Gustav Jung and the growing group of post-Jungian practitioners. Clinical practice relies on closely attending to and interpreting a person’s dreams and/or symbolic imagery, the way this material and other thoughts and feelings are expressed, and the nature of the transference dynamics encountered in the relationship with the analyst. Analytical psychologists are also attentive to the often unconscious psychological links between individuals and society, including the cultures of groups and institutions. This interest in understanding a person’s context reflect CG Jung’s observations about universal or ‘archetypal’ dynamics and themes, and the influence on any individual’s psychology of what he called the ‘collective unconscious’.

ANZSJA was established in 1978. As a professional society it is sensitive to the particularities of the Australian and New Zealand context, and is committed to maintenance of high standards of practice. Opportunities for training and continuing education, research and reflection are a particular priority for the Society. It is one of 38 world wide member societies functioning under the aegis of the Zurich-based International Association of Analytical Psychologists.

PACFA Section Psychoanalysis/ Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy

Website link www.anzsja.org.au