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Katerina Sarafidou is the Head of Research and former Jungian Director of the MSc Psychodynamics of Human Development run by Birkbeck College and the British Psychotherapy Foundation. She is an honorary member of the British Jungian Analytic Association and is carrying out academic research at the Warburg Institute on Jungian theory and German aesthetics. She is one of the three founders of The Circle of Analytical Psychology, which offers a 2-year course of study on Jung’s Liber Novus. She is also leading a Reading Group for the British Psychotherapy Foundation focusing on the systematic study of Jung's primary texts.
Peter Ammann is a founding member of ISAP ZURICH, where he is a lecturer, training analyst and supervisor. After training as a cellist, he was encouraged by Jung himself and by his analysts, Jolande Jacobi and Marie-Louise von Franz, to follow Jungian studies. He graduated from the C. G. Jung Institute Zurich in 1965. His 1984 encounter with Laurens van der Post inspired his interests in Africa, the Bush people, their rock paintings, and in African Traditional Healing. He made several documentary films and DVDs related to Southern Africa and the Encounter and ongoing Dialogue between Jungian Analysts and African Traditional Healers.
Dr Jean Knox is a psychiatrist and a Jungian analyst with a relational and attachment-based approach. Her PhD on the effect of emotion on memory and perception was at the Psychoanalysis Unit at UCL, supervised by Professor Peter Fonagy.
She is Honorary Associate Professor at theUniversity of Exeter, for the Doctorate in Clinical Practice and the Professional Qualifying Training in Psychodynamic and Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy and is Chair of the Trustees of the British Psychotherapy Foundation.
She was Editor-in -Chief of the Journal of Analytical Psychology and has written and taught extensively on the relevance of research in attachment theory and developmental neuroscience to psychotherapy theory and practice. Her book Archetype, Attachment, Analysis: Jungian Psychology and the Emergent Mind was published in 2003. Her book ‘Self-Agency in Psychotherapy: Attachment, Autonomy and Intimacy’ was published in December 2011, in the WW Norton Interpersonal Neurobiology series.
Oliver Knox: Oliver’s PhD was in the History of Jung's psychology, in particular how his interpretation of Buddhism and Indian thought shaped his psychology and how Jung, in turn, shaped our modern-day understanding of Buddhist theory and practice. His project was at UCL, under the supervision of Sonu Shamdasani. He is a Zen Buddhist practitioner and a member at the London Buddhist Society and a trainee psychotherapist at the Society of Analytical Psychology.