A Warm Welcome to the Journal of Analytical Psychology
We are very pleased to let you know that three of the papers published in this Journal were shortlisted for National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis’ Gravida awards, and that Christopher Carter’s paper, "Time for space at the table: an African American-Native American analyst-in-training's first-hand reflections. A call for the IAAP to publicly denounce (but not erase) the White supremacist writings of C.G. Jung", won the Student Paper award (it was published in the Journal of Analytical Psychology [Vol. 66, No. 1; February 2021]). We are very pleased that Christopher’s important paper has been recognised in this way; he has prepared a short video by way of introduction and our publishers, Wiley, have made the paper free to download.
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In his 1920 foreword in Psychological Types, Jung writes:
This book is the fruit of nearly twenty years’ work in the domain of practical psychology … the psychological views presented in this book are of wide significance and application, and are therefore better treated in a general frame of reference than left in the form of a specialized scientific hypothesis (Jung 1921, p. xi).
Some would say ... (click on picture for full blog)
We are delighted to announce that the Michael Fordham Prize for the best paper in 2019 has been awarded to Ruth Calland for her paper, ‘Race, power and intimacy in the intersubjective field: the intersection of racialised cultural complexes and personal complexes’. Ruth’s paper is a very personal ...
We are delighted to announce that this year's winner of the Michael Fordham Prize for the best clinical paper of 2018 was won by Geraldine Godsil for her outstanding paper, 'Residues in the analyst of the patient's symbiotic connection at a somatic level: unrepresented states in the patient and analyst' (JAP vol. 63,1). For more information, to download the paper free of charge, and to watch Geraldine's original introduction of the paper click on her photograph above.
Martin Stone introduces the JAP Special Edition on the 'Who is my Jung?' Conference, originally held in November 2017. This Special Edition of the Journal, published in June 2018, includes all but one of the papers from this very successful conference. Martin gives an introduction, a brief history of the conference and an outline of the edition - click here for his video.
The paper I’ve written on the somatic countertransference took many years to take shape. It was written several years after the analytic work ended but I had carried the notes with me as I retired from clinical practice and relocated. Why we can’t yet understand a patient’s communication is a vital question for clinicians and why we can, eventually, in a kind of Kairos moment, finally ‘get it’ is also interesting.
Latest issue
The February 2026 issue is out now.
Dr Steve Myers explores political polarisation through the lens of Jung's work on Psychological Types in our latest blog post.
Photo by Marl Clevenger
Editorial Board
Editors-in-Chief:
Lara Lagutina (UK)
Carolyn Bates (North America)
Arthur Niesser (Europe)
Deputy Editors:
Amanda Dowd
John Merchant
Managing Editor:
Esther Waldron
The editorial board includes leading analysts from the UK, Europe, North America, Australia, China, Russia and Latin America, in collaboration with Jungian analysts from around the world.
Workshop
Integrating Healing and Justice Values
Small group work activates our psychocultural development
with Dr Peter Dunlap
Saturday 23rd May, 2026, 16:00 – 18:00 London - online
(17:00 CEST, 11:00 New York, 08:00 San Francisco)
Please click here for more details
To register please follow this link: https://www.thesap.org.uk/events/jap-a-workshop-with-dr-peter-dunlap/
JAP Conference 2027
The Space Between: Its Limits and Possibilities - Collapse and Metamorphosis in the Analytic Vessel and the World
In-Person conference 14th to 17th October 2027
This in-person conference invites reflection on the space between analyst and analysand, inner and outer worlds, breakdown and emergence, limits and possibility. Analytic work often takes place at thresholds where emotional experience exceeds symbolization; where the frame is tested, and where meaning may either be missing, or may emerge or transform. In these liminal spaces, processes of collapse, impasse, and uncertainty coexist with the potential for psychic movement, creative emergence, and metamorphosis.
We welcome papers that engage deeply with clinical work and analytic thinking, including contributions that explore early or unformulated states of mind, shared unconscious processes, somatization and shared psychosomatic states, transference and countertransference dynamics, and the analyst’s capacity to remain present at the limits of what can be held or known. Presentations may address moments of failure, rupture, or deadness in the analytic field, as well as the conditions under which new possibilities of psychic life may come into being.
At the same time, the conference recognises that analytic work is always situated within our wider cultural, historical, political and technological context which is currently marked by rapid change, increasing uncertainty, and mounting pressure on meaning-making itself. We also welcome contributions that reflect on these realities, their impact on and relationship with the analytic vessel, including, but not restricted to, contemporary cultural, technological (AI), social and historical realities, including our ancestry and intergenerational or collective trauma. Overall, the conference aims to offer a reflective and clinically grounded space in which limits are neither denied nor idealised but held as part of the conditions for transformation and in which experiences and understandings of our current world situation may be shared.