The Irish Analytical Psychology Association was established in July 1996 by a small group of Jungian analysts
and psychotherapists to represent and promote the understanding and development of analytical psychology in
Ireland. In 1998 the I.A.P.A. was officially accepted as a Developing Group within the International
Association for Analytical Psycholoy. The I.A.P.A. was admitted to the I.C.P., the Irish Council of
Psychotherapy, in 2000 as the official professional body representing Jungian psychology in Ireland.

The I.A.P.A. sponsors public lectures and clinical seminars given by Jungian analysts and analytical
psychotherapists. In addition, the I.A.P.A. encourages high standards of professional training and practice
within analytical psychology in Ireland. With this purpose in mind, it maintains a Register of Members
recognised by the I.A.P.A. as competent to practice in their profession as either Jungian Analysts or Analytical
Psychotherapists. The I.A.P.A. also provides a supportive and friendly professional framework for its members.

Analytical, or Jungian Psychology is based upon the ideas of Dr. Carl Gustav Jung, a Swiss psychiatrist
(1875-1961). Jung had a working relationship with Freud from 1906-1913 and was the first elected President
of the International Psychoanalytic Association. Their collaboration ended when Jung developed psychological
theories that departed from Freud's views. While they agreed about the concepts of the personal unconscious, the
complexes and much of Freud’s developmental theory, Jung's emphasis was different. He saw the unconscious as
complementary to and communicating with consciousness, rather than as a mere repository of repressed experience.
Jung believed that analysis should be a dialectical relationship between two people, working together to alleviate
the client's psychic condition through a process of discovering and integrating the unconscious aspects of the
personality.

I.A.P.A. Management Committee March 2008- March 2009:

Chair: Aileen Young
Vice Chair: Carol Cunningham
Honorary Secretary: Kathy Morrison
Treasurer: Jean FitzGerald
Members: Orla Crowley, Ruth Kearney