Psychological Types: Beyond a Parlour Trick

Open to the public.

Presented by Katerina Sarafidou, chaired by Jane Johnson.

The theory of psychological types was Jung’s first formulation of the process of individuation in psychological language after completing the Red Book, and his first attempt to articulate the notion of the symbol and the mechanics of individuation in the consulting room. This talk will discuss the role of psychological types in the process of individuation, the rationale and basic principles of Jung’s theory of typology, and how such a theory fits into a contemporary understanding of analytical psychology.

About the speaker 

Katerina Sarafidou is an honorary member of the British Jungian Analytic Association. She is the Jungian Head of Research and former Jungian Director at the MSc Psychodynamics of Human Development run by Birkbeck College and the British Psychotherapy Foundation. She carries out academic research at the Warburg Institute and teaches in several Jungian and psychoanalytic trainings. She is one of three founders of The Circle of Analytical Psychology, which offers a 2-year study on Jung’s Red Book, and convenes a long-running Jung Reading Group at the BPF.

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