History

At the instigation of the late Hazel Parker in 1962, Dr Euan MacLean organised a showing of the filmed interview  "C G Jung: Face to Face" by John Freeman.  At the end of the evening  Ms Parker's suggestion "Let's have a Jung Society" was taken up. The Jung Society of Melbourne is reputed to have been the very first Jung Society in the world not to be established a professional body of therapists, but instead by a collection of academics, health and therapeutic professionals plus autodidacts, students, and the merely curious - and so it remains today.

After more than sixty years the Society continues to flourish as a monthly meeting place for members and non-members alike for the discussion, exploration and ongoing development and application of the concepts conceived and espoused by the Swiss psychoanalyst - Carl Gustav Jung.  Increasingly our meetings are being equally recognized as opportunities for fellowship with other like-minded souls. In 2015 the Society celebrated and commemorated in fine style, the 140th birthday of Carl Gustav Jung. 

In keeping with the extraordinary wide breadth of Jung's own explorations, the Jung Society of Melbourne endeavours to bring together diverse approaches towards psychological, mental and spiritual development and to encourage the birth of new ideas and directions.

The Jung Society has long established links with a number of organizations with different but overlapping interests, as well as close ties with Jung Societies across Australia.

See also link: Dr Trudy Spencer, 40 years as a Psychiatrist