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This paper is a historical account of how the Analytical Psychology Clubs were formed and how they developed. It appears that Jung wanted to form them because he thought that two-person analysis was ‘one-sided from a collective and social point of view’ and so the Zurich club was started as a ‘silent experiment in group psychology’. That is surprising in view of Jung's later hostility to group analysis. It is interesting that Baynes wanted to try out group analysis much later when he was the leading member of the A.P.C. in London. It was abortive and it does not seem that such a project was ever attempted anywhere else.
But what is the function of these clubs which spread over the world and have survived over the years? That, according to Samuels, has been a recurrent preoccupation of members and I can confirm it from my own experience. Periodic meetings on that subject never seemed to produce much result and the curious feature is that, though no conclusion was arrived at, the clubs continued to survive and grow.
Samuels has collected much information about these beginnings and he then goes on to give details about the A.P.C. in London. A group tends to require a leader, and Baynes filled that function in the early years. He laid emphasis on the sense of community derived from those who had had the ‘privilege’ of an analysis in Zurich by Jung himself or Toni Wolff. But that exclusiveness could not continue and furthermore Baynes, and