Jungian Analyst Harley Street — Dr Philippe Jacquet
There are very few practising Jungian analysts in London. Fewer still work at Harley Street. Philippe Jacquet is both: a Jungian analyst trained with the Association of Jungian Analysts, with over 25 years of clinical practice based at Harley Street W1 — the centre of specialist private medicine in the United Kingdom.
Jungian analysis is one of the most demanding forms of psychological training that exists. The training itself requires years of personal analysis, supervised clinical work, and rigorous theoretical study. It produces a practitioner who can work at depth with the unconscious — with dreams, symbols, complexes, shadow material — in a way that shorter trainings do not prepare for.
What Jungian Analysis Addresses
People come to Jungian analysis with a wide range of presentations. Some come with a named difficulty — depression, anxiety, addiction, a trauma that has not resolved. Others come with something harder to name: a persistent sense of disconnection from their own life, the feeling of having built something outwardly successful that does not feel like it belongs to them, a midlife questioning that has no clear object.
Jungian analysis is particularly suited to the second kind of difficulty — what Jung called the problems of the second half of life. After a certain point, the strategies of ambition, achievement and external construction that served the first half begin to feel insufficient. Something else is needed. Analysis addresses what that something is, and what it requires.
The Research Evidence for Long-Term Depth Therapy
A substantial body of research supports the effectiveness of long-term psychodynamic and psychoanalytic therapy — the tradition within which Jungian analysis sits. A landmark meta-analysis by Leichsenring and Rabung (2008, JAMA) found that long-term psychodynamic therapy produced significantly larger effects than shorter treatments for complex mental disorders, with benefits continuing to grow after treatment ended. A 2015 follow-up in Psychotherapy confirmed these findings: long-term psychodynamic therapy shows superior outcomes to short-term treatments particularly for personality structure, complex presentations and overall psychological functioning.
Jungian analysis specifically has been examined in a long-term naturalistic study by Keller et al. (2013), which found significant and lasting improvements in symptom severity, interpersonal functioning and quality of life — with treatment gains maintained at follow-up. These are not short-term symptom reductions. They are changes in how a person relates to themselves and their life.
Dream Analysis and the Unconscious
Dream analysis is central to Jungian work. Jung understood dreams as communications from the unconscious — not as wish-fulfilments (Freud’s model) but as compensatory messages that correct the one-sidedness of conscious attitudes. Working with dreams in analysis can reveal material that is simply not accessible through direct reflection: the direction the psyche is moving in, the conflicts that have not yet surfaced consciously, the symbolic figures that carry unlived aspects of the personality.
This is not mysticism. It is a clinically developed practice with a coherent theoretical framework and a 100-year tradition of documented clinical application.
How to Begin
An initial consultation — sixty minutes at Harley Street W1 or by secure video — is the starting point. Its purpose is to assess whether this is the right clinical fit and to discuss what the work might involve. There is no obligation beyond that. Sessions are available in English and French.
Jungian analysis at Harley Street — one of the few practices in London offering this depth of work.
Book an Initial ConsultationFrequently Asked Questions
What makes Jungian analysis different from other forms of therapy?
Jungian analysis is one of the deepest forms of talk therapy available. It works at a level that most other approaches do not reach — not simply addressing symptoms or changing behaviour, but helping you understand yourself at the deepest level of your psychological life. What makes it distinct is its teleological dimension: it does not only look backward at what has happened to you. It also looks forward — at where your psyche, your soul, wants to go next. And at the centre of the work is the question of meaning — not just functioning better, but building a life that feels genuinely yours.
How long does Jungian analysis take and how often do sessions happen?
There is no fixed answer — and that is itself part of what makes Jungian analysis different. The work can span years, and sessions can happen anywhere from once a week to four times a week, depending on what the person needs and what the analysis requires. Most people work once or twice a week. In Jungian analysis, you are the driver. I am the navigator. I can offer a perspective, suggest a direction, notice something you may not have seen. But when you tell me you are ready to stop, that decision is yours. The analysis ends when you decide it ends. That is not a limitation of the work. It is fundamental to what the work is.