The Psychology Club Zurich was founded in 1916 by Mr. and Mrs. McCormick-Rockefeller, Emma and Carl Gustav Jung, and some Zurich friends of Complex Psychology. From the very beginning the clubhouse was probably the most important forum for the psychiatrist C.G. Jung to present his ideas in many seminars and lectures before publishing them. After the break with Sigmund Freud the clubhouse became a setting in which Analytical Psychology, as it was called later, could blossom in exchanges with specialists from the most diverse of disciplines in the presence of analysts and analysands.

Carl Gustav Jung’s psychological insights are deeply rooted in the past; they reach back into archaic existence, yet that very fact endows them with their ever-regenerating, future-directed character.  

In 2016 the Psychology Club Zürich celebrated its hundredth anniversary. Thus the Club’s beginning coincided with the period when the Red Book had its origins. As he wrote in the Epilogue of the Red Book (1959), two years before his death, C.G. Jung spent sixteen long years working with his inner images. All the more important, then, was the Club, which afforded him the welcome opportunity to share his discoveries with others. For Jung this was also a special reason to found the Club: he wanted to create a place where the inner, often lonely work on the soul could find a balance in exchanges with others. To this day the Club understands itself as a place where colleagues and lay people, interested in Analytical Psychology, and from all over the world can mutually exchange their creative work and thoughts. To this day this interaction is of prime importance, namely to be true to the living spirit of Psyche.