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Since the founding of the Clinic and Research Centre for Jungian Psychology (Klinik am Zürichberg) in Zürich, patients there have been given the opportunity to paint in the Clinic's own studio. These pictures have now been collected, classified and catalogued, with the exception of those which the patients took with them.
A continually growing collection of about 6,000 pictures from 160 former patients is available at the Clinic. The picture material can be supplemented by data from the case histories (psychiatric diagnosis, information about the course of the stay in the Clinic, test results—where available—dreams, etc.)
Parallel with this collection is another at the C. G. Jung Institute, which has been growing since 1960. These paintings have been produced during the course of analyses, and now include about 4,000 pictures from 50 analysands and more than 1,000 slides all arranged thematically. In addition, the C. G. Jung Institute has a cultural-history archive (ARAS—Archive for Research in Archetypal Symbolism) containing largely the same material as that held by the parallel ARAS archive at the C. G. Jung Institute in New York, which provides amplifying material for a more thorough-going study. These pictures are supplied with complete descriptions and bibliographical data and are accessible through an English and German subject catalogue.
The catalogues, which list the paintings of both the clinic patients and the Institute's analysands, and which explain the contents of the pictures, were designed by Dr Rudolf Michel. In Zürich the same catalogue system is used for both archives thus enabling material in both collections to be referred to in the same way.
All pictures by every patient are collected and arranged in series, classified by date when possible, and given a series and picture number. For each picture there is a file card which gives information about the contents of the picture by means of from one to five catch-words. By this method it is possible to