From the Societies

In a previous issue of the journal (Vol. 9, No. 1) we recorded the foundation of a Clinic and Research Institute for Jungian Psychology at Zürich, and we now have pleasure in announcing that an inpatient clinic has begun to operate.

The opening ceremony was held at the Waldhaus, Dolder. Addresses were delivered by Professor C. A. Meier, President of the Foundation, and H. K. Fierz, Director of the Clinic. Franz Riklin, President of the Curatorium of the C. G. Jung Institute, welcomed the enterprise and expressed good wishes for its success.

Secretary of the Institute: C. T. Frey-Wehrlin, to whom inquiries should be addressed at the clinic or at Freiestrasse 33, 8032 Zürich.

Professor C. A. Meier said:

In 1963 the Foundation—Clinic and Research Centre for Jungian Psychology—occupied the house at Dolderstrasse 107, and on 1 April 1964 H. K. Fierz was appointed as the Medical Director of the Psychiatric-Psychotherapeutic Clinic. He will speak after me about the methods to be used in the ‘Clinic on Zürichberg’, and he will also tell you about its social function.

I am glad to be able to give you some information about the origin and history of the Clinic and more particularly about the scientific programme of the Foundation.

When, not long ago, I was approached and asked whether I would give my moral support to a Foundation whose special purpose it would be to apply Jungian psychology to psychiatric cases on the one hand and to do research work in the field of Jungian psychology on the other, I gladly gave my assent without a moment's hesitation. Of this quick response, usually not at all characteristic of me, I feel it necessary to give you some explanation, all the more as it will at the same time help to justify the research programme of the Foundation.

The request reminded me at once of the great interest Jung himself had always shown in clinical psychiatry and of his spectacular therapeutic results during the early years of his activity at the Burghölzli Cl