Personal Analysis

Training as a Jungian analyst — a journey, not a qualification

Becoming a Jungian analyst is not a course that ends with a certificate and a new set of skills. It is a sustained transformation — of knowledge, of the self, and of the relationship between the two.

What the training actually requires

The commitment operates simultaneously on several dimensions.

Two people in the room — countertransference, supervision, and the patient as teacher

Jung observed that when an analyst sits with a patient, there are not one but two people in therapy. The patient is doing the work of their analysis. The analyst is doing something too — feelings arise, thoughts emerge uninvited, reactions occur that have no obvious explanation in what was just said.