Society of Analytical Psychology

The following is an interim description which may change when detailed cataloguing takes place in future.

Papers of the Society of Analytical Psychology including:

Child Analytical Training Committee minutes, 1975-2006; CAT Committee Correspondence, 1975-2006; CAT Policy book; Children's Section programme booklets; Papers related to the Association of Child Psychotherapists; Papers related to the setting up of the Co-Consultancy, Co-Consultancy papers: March 2000- Nov 2006 (CAT Training Programme (1999-2003); Reading Lists (2000-2003); Curricula; Policies and Guidelines; Consultancy Reports (SAP); Consultancy Reports (ACP); ACP Accreditation (1986, 1995, 2001); Correspondence and Feedback; Consultant's Contract; Closing the CAT); Assorted papers by Dorothy Davidson, originally intended for a collection of her papers.

Articles and papers by Michael Fordham and others

An account book

Early lectures by Toni Woolf, Michael Fordham, W. Kraemer, and Murray Jackson

Papers relating to meetings of the Psychotherapy Section.

c.1946-2006

4 transfer boxes

The archives were given to the library at Wellcome Collection by the Society of Analytical Psychology in October 2009 and May 2014.

The Society of Analytical Psychology (SAP) was founded in 1936 under the auspices of ‘The Analytical Psychology Club’. However, due to the Second World War the constitution for the SAP was not finalised until 1946. C.G. Jung was the first President of the Society.

The Society was set up to explore and develop Jung’s ideas and to make them better known. Trainings in both adult analysis and child analysis were set up, and members were required to have a personal analysis themselves. The SAP also founded the Journal of Analytical Psychology. The other main aim of the Society was to offer therapy and analysis to people who are in distress. The C.G. Jung Clinic was set up to make analysis available to all those who might benefit from it.

Michael Fordham was one of the founder members of the Society and was pivotal in its instigation and development. He was director of both the adult and child trainings at various times and was also one of the editors of Jung’s Collected Works. Michael Fordham was also the inspiration behind the Journal of Analytical Psychology and was its first editor, a position he held for fifteen years from 1955.

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