The Psychology Club Zürich (German: Psychologischer Club Zürich) is an association founded in

Küsnacht Küsnacht is a municipality in the district of Meilen in the canton of Zurich in Switzerland. History Küsnacht is first mentioned in 1188 as ''de Cussenacho''. Earliest findings of settlement date back to the stone age. There are also finding ...

, Switzerland, in 1916 by Swiss psychiatrist and psychologist

Carl Jung Carl Gustav Jung ( ; ; 26 July 1875 – 6 June 1961) was a Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who founded analytical psychology. Jung's work has been influential in the fields of psychiatry, anthropology, archaeology, literature, phi ...

, with former patients and students, to promote and develop

analytical psychology Analytical psychology ( de , Analytische Psychologie, sometimes translated as analytic psychology and referred to as Jungian analysis) is a term coined by Carl Jung, a Swiss psychiatrist, to describe research into his new "empirical science ...

. Located in a neo-Gothic building at Gemeindestrasse 27,

Zürich , neighboring_municipalities = Adliswil, Dübendorf, Fällanden, Kilchberg, Maur, Oberengstringen, Opfikon, Regensdorf, Rümlang, Schlieren, Stallikon, Uitikon, Urdorf, Wallisellen, Zollikon , twintowns = Kunming, San Francisco Zürich ...

, it became a prototype for other psychology clubs. The club continues to play an important role in the global development of Jungian psychology.Kirsch, Thomas B
''The Jungians: A Comparative and Historical Perspective''
Routledge, 2012, p. 31. Its centenary was celebrated in 2016.

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Club website
(in English and German) Carl Jung

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Küsnacht Psychology institutes Psychology organisations based in Switzerland {{psychology-stub

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