Thomas B Kirsch
Biographic Data
| ID | 5445530 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Thomas B Kirsch |
| GIVEN NAMES | Thomas B |
| FAMILY NAME | Kirsch |
| SIGNATURE | KIRSCH T B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Palo Alto Institute |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1967 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Thomas B. Kirsch on Ancestors
Additional informationNotes on contributorsThomas B. KirschThomas B. Kirsch, MD, is a Jungian Analyst Member of the C. G. Jung Institute of San Francisco, former president of the San Francisco Jung Institute, former president of the International Association for Analytical Psychology, and author of The Jungians, a history of the Jungian movement, as well as many papers on the history of analytical psychology. At present, he is working on a memoir…
Jung/James Kirsch correspondence
At the 2005 International Association of Jungian Studies (IAJS) conference in Texas, I presented what I thought were the most significant contents of the letters between Jung and my father, particularly where the correspondence had to do with Jung's relationship to Jews and Judaism. Despite my reflections over the ensuing years, when I submitted the abstract for the joint International Association for Analytical Psychology (IAAP)/IAJS conference …
Jung and Judaism
The C. G. Jung-James Kirsch Letters
James Kirsch, one of the first generation of Jungian analysts and a founding member of the C. G. Jung Gesellschaft für Analalytische Psychologie in Berlin, practiced in Tel Aviv, Palestine, and went on to become a founding member of the first British Jungian group in London and then a co-founder of the C. G. Jung Institute of Los Angeles. He had a close relationship to C. G. Jung over four decades. This article discusses the correspondence and gi…
A Visit to Hildemarie Streich
In an introduction to the author of the paper that follows, the Kirsches relate anecdotal and historical material they gathered during a visit to the home of Hildemarie Streich in the summer of 2008
Joseph Lewis Henderson 1903–2007
This is a biographical sketch of Joseph Lewis Henderson who was born on August 31, 1903, and who died on November 17, 2007, at age 104. Henderson was born in Elko, Nevada, went east to prep school and Princeton where he graduated with a B.A. in 1927. He traveled to Zürich in 1929 where he spent a year in analysis with Jung and attended the Dream Seminar. He received his medical degree in London from Saint Bartholomew’s and then returned to New Yo…
A Survivor’s Tale
Thomas B. Kirsch, “A Survivors Tale,” Review of Zdena Berger's Tell Me Another Morning, Paris Press, 2007, Jung Journal: culture & psyche, 1:4, 70-72. This is an autobiographical novel of a teenage Czechoslovakian Jewish girl who is torn away from her family during World War II. She is sent to several of the concentration camps and survives the camps and the war. The author describes her arduous experience with great simplicity, and how with the …
Impressions of the XVII International Iaap Congress in Cape Town, South Africa
The International Association for Analytical Psychology, or the IAAP, is the international umbrella organization for all Jungian analysts in the world. Every three years, it organizes a week-long Congress where papers are presented in many different languages and on many different subjects around a given theme. It is also a time to renew international friendships and catch up with our colleagues from around the world. This year’s conference theme…
In Memoriam
Dear Editors
The Iaap and the JAP
Panel
The relationship between the IAAP (International Association for Analytical Psychology) and the JAP ( Journal of Analytical Psychology ) in the course of their 50‐year old existence is explored from historical, theoretical, institutional, personal and clinical perspectives. This relationship is seen to have been contentious as well as complementary in promoting an interdisciplinary approach to Jungian clinical practice. The complementary aspects …
Toni Wolff–James Kirsch correspondence
This paper draws on the letters between Toni Wolff and James Kirsch from 1929–1933 and from 1949–1953 to highlight some aspects of Toni Wolff's relationship with her supervisee and former analysand, James Kirsch. Her personality, her approach to her work as analyst, and her relationship with Jung and with colleagues are illustrated with selected quotes from the correspondence
What Freudians can learn from Jung.
What Freudians can learn from Jung
Family matters The descendants of Freud and Jung
A brief history of what it has meant to be a Jungian analyst and/or analytical psychologist in the United States and England is portrayed. At first the differences between psychoanalysis and analytical psychology were very great, and there was great animosity between the two schools. The conflict was much stronger in the United States than in England where Jungians developed a much better rapport with psychoanalysis. Recent theoretical developmen…
Response to John Beebe
This paper briefly describes the history of the professional interaction between psychoanalysts and analytical psychologists in the United States. There has been little public contact between the two groups since the personal feud between Freud and Jung has beer carried forth to the present generation of analysts. The relationship between Otto Rank and Freud and his circle demonstrated many of the same dynamics that were activated between Freud a…
Iaap and Jungian Identity
Relections of Introversion And/Or Schizoid Personality
A Clinical Example of Puer Aeternus Identification
Psychiatry and religion
Family matters The descendants of Freud and Jung
A brief history of what it has meant to be a Jungian analyst and/or analytical psychologist in the United States and England is portrayed. At first the differences between psychoanalysis and analytical psychology were very great, and there was great animosity between the two schools. The conflict was much stronger in the United States than in England where Jungians developed a much better rapport with psychoanalysis. Recent theoretical developmen…
Psychiatry and religion
A Clinical Example of Puer Aeternus Identification
Relections of Introversion And/Or Schizoid Personality
Iaap and Jungian Identity
Response to John Beebe
This paper briefly describes the history of the professional interaction between psychoanalysts and analytical psychologists in the United States. There has been little public contact between the two groups since the personal feud between Freud and Jung has beer carried forth to the present generation of analysts. The relationship between Otto Rank and Freud and his circle demonstrated many of the same dynamics that were activated between Freud a…
Family matters The descendants of Freud and Jung
A brief history of what it has meant to be a Jungian analyst and/or analytical psychologist in the United States and England is portrayed. At first the differences between psychoanalysis and analytical psychology were very great, and there was great animosity between the two schools. The conflict was much stronger in the United States than in England where Jungians developed a much better rapport with psychoanalysis. Recent theoretical developmen…
What Freudians can learn from Jung.
What Freudians can learn from Jung
Toni Wolff–James Kirsch correspondence
This paper draws on the letters between Toni Wolff and James Kirsch from 1929–1933 and from 1949–1953 to highlight some aspects of Toni Wolff's relationship with her supervisee and former analysand, James Kirsch. Her personality, her approach to her work as analyst, and her relationship with Jung and with colleagues are illustrated with selected quotes from the correspondence
Dear Editors
The Iaap and the JAP
Panel
The relationship between the IAAP (International Association for Analytical Psychology) and the JAP ( Journal of Analytical Psychology ) in the course of their 50‐year old existence is explored from historical, theoretical, institutional, personal and clinical perspectives. This relationship is seen to have been contentious as well as complementary in promoting an interdisciplinary approach to Jungian clinical practice. The complementary aspects …
A Survivor’s Tale
Thomas B. Kirsch, “A Survivors Tale,” Review of Zdena Berger's Tell Me Another Morning, Paris Press, 2007, Jung Journal: culture & psyche, 1:4, 70-72. This is an autobiographical novel of a teenage Czechoslovakian Jewish girl who is torn away from her family during World War II. She is sent to several of the concentration camps and survives the camps and the war. The author describes her arduous experience with great simplicity, and how with the …
Impressions of the XVII International Iaap Congress in Cape Town, South Africa
The International Association for Analytical Psychology, or the IAAP, is the international umbrella organization for all Jungian analysts in the world. Every three years, it organizes a week-long Congress where papers are presented in many different languages and on many different subjects around a given theme. It is also a time to renew international friendships and catch up with our colleagues from around the world. This year’s conference theme…
In Memoriam
Joseph Lewis Henderson 1903–2007
This is a biographical sketch of Joseph Lewis Henderson who was born on August 31, 1903, and who died on November 17, 2007, at age 104. Henderson was born in Elko, Nevada, went east to prep school and Princeton where he graduated with a B.A. in 1927. He traveled to Zürich in 1929 where he spent a year in analysis with Jung and attended the Dream Seminar. He received his medical degree in London from Saint Bartholomew’s and then returned to New Yo…
A Visit to Hildemarie Streich
In an introduction to the author of the paper that follows, the Kirsches relate anecdotal and historical material they gathered during a visit to the home of Hildemarie Streich in the summer of 2008
The C. G. Jung-James Kirsch Letters
James Kirsch, one of the first generation of Jungian analysts and a founding member of the C. G. Jung Gesellschaft für Analalytische Psychologie in Berlin, practiced in Tel Aviv, Palestine, and went on to become a founding member of the first British Jungian group in London and then a co-founder of the C. G. Jung Institute of Los Angeles. He had a close relationship to C. G. Jung over four decades. This article discusses the correspondence and gi…
Jung and Judaism
Thomas B. Kirsch on Ancestors
Additional informationNotes on contributorsThomas B. KirschThomas B. Kirsch, MD, is a Jungian Analyst Member of the C. G. Jung Institute of San Francisco, former president of the San Francisco Jung Institute, former president of the International Association for Analytical Psychology, and author of The Jungians, a history of the Jungian movement, as well as many papers on the history of analytical psychology. At present, he is working on a memoir…
Jung/James Kirsch correspondence
At the 2005 International Association of Jungian Studies (IAJS) conference in Texas, I presented what I thought were the most significant contents of the letters between Jung and my father, particularly where the correspondence had to do with Jung's relationship to Jews and Judaism. Despite my reflections over the ensuing years, when I submitted the abstract for the joint International Association for Analytical Psychology (IAAP)/IAJS conference …
Psychology (16 works) · Psychoanalysis (13 works) · Jungian Analytical Psychology (12 works) · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications (12 works) · Philosophy (11 works) · Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology (8 works) · Analytical psychology (7 works) · Library science (7 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Philosophy (6 works)