How To Become a Jungian Analyst

Jungian Psychoanalytic Association (JPA)

If you wish to become a Jungian analyst, you may apply to the training program of the Jungian Psychoanalytic Association (JPA).

Established by Jungian analysts interested in developing new models and formats of analytic learning, the JPA offers a four-year training program in the New York City area. The training program of the JPA is chartered by the New York State Board of Regents and approved by the International Association for Analytical Psychology (IAAP).

Although the JPA prefers a degree in a mental health discipline, individuals with at least a Master's degree in any discipline may apply to the training program. The JPA prefers but does not require prior experience in a mental health discipline, preferably supervised experience as a psychotherapist. The JPA prefers but does not require prior analysis, preferably with a Jungian analyst.

For more information about the JPA, visit the website at www.jungianpsych.org. To request a catalog and an application form for the training program, inquire by e-mail at jpa (at) webjogger (dot) net.

Vision Statement of the JPA

The Jungian Psychoanalytic Association focuses on the spectrum of ideas and methods of therapeutic action based upon the view that Jungian analysis and theories of psychological process are applicable throughout development and are relevant to the entire spectrum of psychopathology and psychological experience. Seeking to provide a creative educational community, we follow the trajectory of Jung's later works as a theory of psychodynamics and as the basis for effective analytic practice. In line with this trajectory, clinical and archetypal disciplines are understood from an integrated perspective, which brings the interactive alchemical model of mutual transformation into conscious focus. We also seek to expand the therapeutic application of Jungian ideas through their contemporary conceptions in, for example, synchronistic field dynamics.

It has been our experience that both candidates and faculty continue to learn best from mutual exposure of their work, and at the edges of theory and clinical experience. We have in mind a process for training in which faculty share their work with each other in an on-going study group, and also employ their own experience to foster clinical expertise in candidates by direct participation in case seminars with candidates, and in various intensive colloquia. We conceive of our training community as within, and as part of, a broader creative learning community involved with its own creative discourse, with candidate education, with other psychoanalytic disciplines, and with the larger artistic, political, cultural, and scientific communities.

We recognize the fundamental relevance of personal development to an analyst's clinical capabilities. However, we do not understand training to provide a personal initiation process. We see analytic training as a full participation in and mastery of a body of material, clinical competence, and analytic consciousness. Training will take place within the body of the larger learning community and be distinct from a candidate's personal process and analysis. We believe that the integrity and limitations of both institutional life and personal process are best served by this distinction.

We will provide training that is compatible with, and informed by, the contemporary Jungian understanding of depth psychological process as unfolding within an interactive field constellated around the psyche in both its multiplicity and unity. We will explore a model for training which provides sound structure and also allows for the originality and disorder upon which creative analytic work depends. In keeping with this sensibility, the program we envision:

• will consider applicants with prior mental health degrees and experience, and also consider applicants from other disciplines.
• (within the guidelines of the International Association for Analytical Psychology and the National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis) will be structured in a way that allows for the personal and professional commitments of its candidates so that the program may be completed in four years, with courses offered primarily in the evenings, on weekends, in intensive colloquia format, and in selected cases "on-line".
• will invite professionals from outside the community to lead and participate in selected seminars.
• recognizes that as theory has grown and emerged there is a need for a new understanding of both content and structure of curriculum. The distinction between "clinical" and "archetypal" disciplines is not meaningful. Curriculum will not be divided along clinical, archetypal, and Jung's writings "tracks." Courses will be taught with an integrated perspective from the beginning of training and throughout to the end. We consider the Jungian approach fundamental to the mastery of basics, the foundation of clinical practice, and applicable to all levels of psychological process and pathology.
• will seek to teach and continue to learn a method of thinking, imagining, and responding therapeutically through a thematic and mythopoeic sensibility, which manifests in part through the lens of clinical mythologems. An understanding of basic clinical mythologems such as creation, rebirth, nigredo, circulatio, and chaos, will serve as foundation for further amplificatory study of the various world mythologies. The various schools of psychoanalytic thought — for example, Jungian, object relations, self psychology, and intersubjectivity — will also be approached as various mythologems.
• assessment of candidates will take place along three venues: immediate "point-of-contact" between faculty and candidate, either an oral or written examination taken at any time during training at the candidate's discretion demonstrating proficiency in the areas outlined by the curriculum, and a final project which will be shared with the training community.
• anticipates a mutually cooperative and beneficial relationship with the New York Association for Analytical Psychology and the C.G. Jung Institute of New York.

Analyst Members of the JPA

The following Jungian analysts are members of the JPA:

• Michael Vannoy Adams, D.Phil., L.C.S.W.
• Frank Barth, L.C.S.W.
• Virginia J. Bird, Ph.D.
• Sarah Braun, M.D.
• Joseph Cambray, Ph.D.
• Simone Campbell-Scott, M.A., L.C.S.W.-C.
• Linda Carter, R.N., M.S.N.
• Ann Casement, L.C.S.W.
• Laurence de Rosen, Ph.D.
• Arione de Winter, L.C.S.W.
• Harry Wells Fogarty, Ph.D.
• Diane M. Fremont, L.C.S.W.
• Frauke Glaubitz, M.D., A.D.T.R.
• Donald Grasing, L.C.S.W.
• Melinda Haas, L.C.S.W.
• Alan M. Jones, Ph.D., L.C.S.W.
• Margaret Klenck, M.Div.
• Barbara Black Koltuv, Ph.D.
• Mark Kuras, Ph.D.
• Cynthia Luft, M.A.
• Kathleen Martin, L.C.S.W.
• Jeffrey Rubin Morey, Ph.D.
• Laurel Morris, M.A.
• Brent Nichols, M.A., L.C.S.W.
• Bruce G. Parent, M.A., M.F.A.
• John F. Peck
• Stanley G. Perelman, Ph.D.
• Priscilla Rodgers, M.P.S.
• Sherry Salman, Ph.D.
• Susanne Short, M.Ed.
• Morgan Stebbins, M.Div., M.S.W.
• Douglas G. Tompkins, M.Div., L.P.
• Ann Belford Ulanov, M.Div., Ph.D., L.H.D.
• Sylvester Wojtkowski, Ph.D.
• Polly Young-Eisendrath, Ph.D.
• Beverley Zabriskie, L.C.S.W.