3. The Complementary Roles of the IAAP and the JAP in Developing Jungian Clinical Practice

The Journal was founded in 1955 by the Society of Analytical Psychology in London. To put that event in its historical setting: Jung was still alive, and indeed became a Collaborating Editor. The first four volumes of the Collected Works had just been published in English, and critical reviews of these, and of ‘Answer to Job’, appeared in the first issue. Papers by Jung appeared in Volume 4 (‘A visionary rumour’) and Volume 5 (‘Good and evil in analytical psychology’).

From the beginning the Journal, like the IAAP, had an international dimension. The masthead listed collaborators in several European countries, in the United States, in Israel and in South Africa, who of course represented not only different geographical locations but also differing views. The list of Collaborating Editors in the United States and in Europe slowly grew. Alongside the scientific proceedings of the SAP, accounts of meetings in Germany and in California began to appear. There were requests from Swiss and German colleagues for the Journal to be bilingual, and from France for occasional articles to appear in French. While it was not possible to meet these requests, it was decided that from 1961 synopses of all articles should be translated into German. Now, since 1998, abstracts of all papers appear in four languages, French, German, Italian and Spanish, and the abstracts of papers from the Prague Conference in 2001 appeared in Czech and Russian too.