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In the last administration, the IAAP initiated a new series of conferences under the category of ‘Joint Conferences IAAP/University’. The aim of this project was multifaceted: to foster cooperation between the IAAP and interested universities; to enhance the visibility of analytical psychology at universities; to place the theory of analytical psychology in relation to recent research; and to continue promoting psychotherapy research and building bridges between clinicians and academics as well as to deepen the relations between the two disciplines. These conferences also aimed at facilitating opportunities for university students to learn about analytical psychology on a more frequent and more in-depth basis.
When the IAAP approached Jungian analysts who are involved with universities and introduced this project, numerous colleagues responded to the appeal. Professor Grazina Gudaite was the first to submit a proposal for a joint conference of the IAAP with the University of Vilnius. With the participation of Jungian analysts from all over the world, especially from Eastern and Western Europe, together with the local academics, it was possible to put together a well-founded and relevant programme. The title of the Joint Conference IAAP/Vilnius University was, ‘Research in Psychology and Culture: Exploring Narratives of Identity’. Some of the papers from this conference can be accessed in Volume 65 of the Journal.
A second ‘Joint Conference IAAP/University’ was held in October 2018 at the University of Basel, together with Professor Christian Roesler, who holds a teaching position in Analytical Psychology at the University of Basel, and Dr. Harald Atmanspacher from the ETH Zürich/Collegium Helveticum. The title of this conference was, ‘Theoretical Foundations of Analytical Psychology: Recent Developments and Controversies’. In the very place where C.G. Jung started his academic career and gained international recognition for his empirical studies with the word associat