The Association with its library is located at the C G Jung Centre in Cape Town. It has connections with Jung groups in other centres throughout South Africa, and is affiliated with the International Association of Jungian Analysts (IAAP).
We as SAAJA members acknowledge that we are part of a country with a painful history of inequality and racial injustice. Accordingly, we are committed to the continuous process of achieving diversity and inclusiveness both in our professional practice and in our organizational events and structures.
SAAJA Mission Statement
The Southern African Association of Jungian Analysts (SAAJA) is an organization of registered Jungian Analysts. The purpose of the organization is the dissemination of information of Analytical Psychology, also known as Jungian Psychology, within the Southern African region. We do this through various activities such as lectures, seminars, reading groups, journal clubs, webinars, publications in our professional journal, as well as keeping a library. A priority for the organization is the growth of membership through the formal training of Jungian Analysts, to be registered with the International Association of Analytical Psychologists, the IAAP.
Birth of SAAJA
In 1991, an anonymous donor made possible the purchase of a house as a permanent home for the C.G. Jung Centre on Linray Road in Rosebank. Laurens van der Post formally opened the building on 29 October 1991, and planted a Ginkgo Biloba tree in the garden to commemorate the auspicious occasion.
In March 1992, Dr. Thomas Kirsch visited South Africa, and assessed the first group of candidates for final qualification. Eight candidates of the first 13 applied, and at the IAAP conference in Chicago in August of the same year, they were accepted as IAAP members.
