A Pacifica Graduate Institute Global Summit: Will Jungian Psychology Survive in the 21st Century?

We live in an era when the abundance of psychologically informed material has never before been so prevalent and accessible, yet this reality exists side by side with the statistically documented profile of a mental health crisis that reaches across national borders and socio-economic divides. In a recent CNN poll, 9 out of 10 US adults said they believed there is a mental health crisis in the US today, with over half of those respondents saying they were experiencing a severe mental health crisis in their own families. According to a recent CDC report, feelings of hopelessness as well as suicidal thoughts among young people have increased by 40% in the last decade.

In his book, A New Therapy for Politics, (2015), author Andrew Samuels presciently writes: “To be honest, the possible contribution of psychotherapy to society beyond the alleviation of individual distress has not been much welcomed. The world did not show up for its first session.” The questions demand to be asked: Why didn’t the world show up for its first session? Why are we in the throes of a mental health crisis when psychological modalities and interventions have never been more prevalent and accessible? How does Jungian psychology speak to the current epoch of polycrisis and the evolving understanding of cultural complexes and a pluralistic psyche?

It’s commonly known that C.G. Jung expressed more than a bit of resistance if not outright skepticism towards the formation of any type of Jungian institute. However, today, almost 62 years after his death, his work continues to live on through the work of scholars and analysts who are evolving his foundational psychoanalytic concepts to address the challenges of a much more diverse and pluralistic world.

Pacifica Graduate Institute is pleased to invite you to join us along with Jungianeum, for this complimentary global summit that brings together internationally recognized thought leaders, authors and analysts to take a hard look at the relevancy of Jungian Psychology for the challenges of the 21st century and explore the trajectory of moving from Jungian to Post-Jungian to Neo-Jungian studies in order to bring the scholarship of C.G. Jung to the challenges of the 21st century.

Andrew Samuels is a relational Jungian psychoanalyst, professor, author, political consultant and activist. He was the founder of Psychotherapists and Counsellors for Social Responsibility in the UK, and was the elected chair of the UK Council for Psychotherapy. Previously, Honorary Secretary of the International Association for Analytical Psychology.

Samuel L. Kimbles, Ph.D. is a psychologist, Jungian analyst, member and former president of the C. G. Jung Institute of San Francisco, and a clinical professor (VCF) in the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. He has a private practice in San Francisco and Santa Rosa, California, and works as a clinical consultant to organizations.

Ursula Brasch, M.A. studied sinology, history, and politics in Freiburg and Tübingen, Germany. She is a training analyst and supervisor at the C.G. Jung Institutes of Zürich and Stuttgart, as well as a member of the Curatorium of the C.G. Jung Institute Zürich. She has engaged in many years of teaching and lecturing on analytical psychology, clinical psychology, and the I Ching.

Joseph Cambray, Ph.D. is the Past-President/CEO and Provost for Pacifica Graduate Institute; Past-President of the International Association for Analytical Psychology; served as the U.S. Editor for The Journal of Analytical Psychology and is on various editorial boards He was a faculty member at Harvard Medical School in the Department of Psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital, Center for Psychoanalytic Studies. Dr. Cambray is a Jungian analyst now living in the Santa Barbara area of California.

Polly Young-Eisendrath is a Jungian analyst, psychologist, and psychotherapist in private practice. She is Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Vermont and the founder and director of the Institute for Dialogue Therapy. She is past president of the Vermont Association for Psychoanalytic Studies and a founding member of the Vermont Institute for the Psychotherapies.

Stefano Carpani, Ph.D. earned a Master of Philosophy and a Master of Arts in sociology from Cambridge University and Manchester (respectively). He graduated in Literature and Philosophy from the Catholic University of Milan. He is a graduate of the C.G. Jung Institute Zürich (CH) and a Ph.D. candidate at the Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytical Studies, University of Essex (UK). He works in private practice in Berlin (DE).