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An Open Letter signed by an international and diverse group of Jungian analysts, clinicians and academics on the topic of Jung and 'Africans' was published in the British Journal of Psychotherapy in November, 2018. It is presented together with Notes written by Andrew Samuels. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In November 2018, the British Journal of Psychotherapy published an Open Letter on the topic of Jung and 'Africans'. The Open Letter (not a petition) was signed by 35 Jungian clinicians and academics from diverse and international backgrounds. The signatories take responsibility for attending to the many difficulties arising from Jung's writings on 'race'. Rather than proceeding to castigate Jung, the signatories delineate actions which might be taken with regard to the 'decolonialisation' of Jungian psychology. The Open Letter is reprinted here in full. Notes explaining the context and providing examples of Jung's attitudes are provided by the author, one of the signatories to the Open Letter. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Using a methodology derived from management and organizational studies, the author reviews the future of Jungian analysis. The methodology is termed SWOT - strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats. A selected list in each of these categories is presented. The author is transparent in allowing for the fact that the paper not only derives from a public lecture on the topic, but also retains the immediacy and the contrarian and opinionated style of such a lecture. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents insights regarding psychotherapist and psychologist C. G. Jung by several Jungian analysts including Andrew Samuels, Ruth Williams, and Christopher Hauke. Hauke mentions that Jung was the first psychologist to use the terms like introversion and extraversion. Samuels states that Jung is an intuitive kind of person and that his writings are deeply problematic.

This paper addresses (1) the history of a cluster of unusual institutions — analytical psychology clubs — which started in 1961 and by 1934 had become established in many of the countries in the world in which there was interest in the analytical psychology of Carl G. Jung; (2) the conflicts involved in trying to unite the relatively informal earlier ‘Jung Clubs’ with the more formal societies being established by the increasing numbers of professionally trained analysts; and (3) the wider cultural and social issues included in the professionalization of analytical psychology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Focuses on the new historical materials presented concerning Jung, anti-Semitism and the Nazis. Opinion of Matthias Göring and Carl Jung on Robert Sommer's book "Family Studies, Hereditology and Raceology"; Publication of the book "Mein Kampf" from Goring; Translation of the book "Collected Works," by Jung.

The paper is a critical study of the intellectual relations of analytical psychology and national socialism. I try to show that it was Jung's attempt to establish a psychology of nations that brought him into the same frame as Nazi anti-semitic ideology. In addition, Jung was absorbed by the question of leadership, also a pressing issue during the 1930s. Exploring these ideas as thoroughly as possible leads to a kind of reparation, for I think that post-Jungians do have reparation to make. Then it is possible to revalue Jung's overall project in more positive terms. By coupling a less simplistic methodology and a more sensitive set of values to Jung's basic intuitions about the importance of a psychology of cultural difference, analytical psychology has something to offer a depth psychology that is concerned with processes of political and social transformation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The author comments on Jungian psychologist Toshio Kawai's response to his Society of Analytical Psychology (SAP) lecture. Topics discussed include the significance of cultural context when Western approaches to and systems of psychology spread outside their homelands, the writings by Carl Jung about Africans, and the reasons why there are so few Jungian analysts of African ancestry.

Focuses on the inclusion of the birthday greetings for Matthias Heinrich Goring in "Zentralblatt" not in "Collected Works." List of articles by Carl Jung in the bibliography; Importance of timing in publishing Jung's work; Role of Goring with the development of psychotherapy in Germany.

Focuses on the views of C.G. Jung on liberal dictatorship in the U.S. Improvement in the quality of life; Benefits of strong political leadership; Disillusion in Jung over the political processes.