The New York Association for Analytical PsychologyThe New York Association for Analytical Psychology (NYAAP) is a professional society of certified Jungian analysts based in the greater New York metropolitan area, with additional members throughout the United States and Canada. Members of NYAAP offer Jungian analysis to the public, and disseminate and develop Jung’s ideas through public lectures and scholarship. Commonly referred to as Jungian therapy or Jungian psychotherapy, Jungian analysis offers the individual a setting in which to explore his or her inner world in order to develop wholeness, greater awareness and psychological healing. Jung believed that therapy could benefit not only those with "neuroses," that is, those who were struggling with adaptation to the outer world, but also people who desire to grow and to deal with the conflicts which cannot be solved by reason and suggestion alone. Jungian analysis is intended to go beyond adaptation, to offer the individual a way to find meaning in his or her own life, and to understand his or her self in relationship to others and to the broader cultural context. For these issues we must go deeper and forge a relationship with the unconscious. This website is a resource for those interested in Jung's ideas, psychological growth, psychotherapy, and Jungian psychoanalysis and Jungian therapy. Here you will find a description of the process of Jungian analysis, a lexicon of psychological terms, a directory to help you find Jungian therapists and Jungian analysts in the New York area, the NYAAP ethical guidelines, information on the training of Jungian analysts, and a link to the Journal of Jungian Theory and Practice. This website may also serve as a starting point to utilize local resources. For those interested in Jungian therapy, New York has a great deal to offer: the Jung Professional Referral Service, lectures at the Jung Center, the Kristine Mann Library and the ARAS collection of images which can be used to understand dreams. "Analysis is only a means for removing the stones from the path of development, and not a method . . . of putting things into the patient that were not there before. It is better to renounce any attempt to give direction, and simply try to throw into relief everything that the analysis brings to light, so that the patient can see it clearly and be able to draw suitable conclusions. Anything he has not acquired himself he will not believe in the long run, and what he takes over from authority merely keeps him infantile. He should rather be put in a position to take his own life in hand. The art of analysis lies in following the patient on all his erring ways and so gathering his strayed sheep together." C.G. Jung "The aims of modern psychotherapy are to compensate the onesidedness and narrowness of the conscious mind by deepening its knowledge of the unconscious." C.G. Jung "Psychotherapy is at bottom a dialectical relationship between doctor and patient. It is an encounter, a discussion between two psychic wholes, in which knowledge is used only as a tool. The goal is transformation." C.G. Jung 1-646-522-6922 |
