Iaap newsletter 28 - The new Israeli Jungian society

progress in our quest, as evidenced by our successful “Jung in Depth” seminar series,
which has received very positive feedback from our participants.
Transitions
Janet Tatum finished her analytic training in October 2008, and is now a full member
of PNSJA. Janet is a clinical social worker, and has had more than 30 years
experience as a psychotherapist. She has been an advanced training candidate with
PNSJA for the past four years, having transferred to PNSJA from the San Francisco
Jung Institute after her move to the Pacific Northwest. She is an expert in the area of
sand play, where she has published various articles and has made many public
presentations to psychotherapists and lay people. She defended her thesis in October
2008, the title of which was “The Double Quaternity: Image, Idea, Insight.” We
welcome Janet with warm and open hearts.
James Witzig died on July 2, 2008, after a long illness. He was 84 years old, and was
married for more than 50 years to his lovely wife Lyris, who survives him. Jim was
born and raised in Corvallis, Oregon. After serving in the Navy during World War II, he
went to Zürich in 1948 for graduate studies in psychology at the University of Zürich.
There, he “stumbled upon” the newly founded C. G. Jung Institute, and became a
serious student of Jung’s analytical psychology ever since. Over the intervening years,
Jim practiced as a clinical psychologist and as a Jungian analyst in Eugene, Oregon,
and he taught lectures and seminars on Jungian and depth psychology at the
University of Oregon. He was a founding member of both the Oregon Friends of Jung
and the Eugene Friends of Jung, and he was one of the primary faculty members at
the C. G. Jung Institute of the Pacific Northwest. While at the Jung Institute in
Zürich, Jim did analysis with both C. A. Meier and Toni Wolff, and he had an
individual interview with C. G. Jung himself. He attended classes, parties, and group
functions where the analytic students and Jung’s inner circle would gather, and Jim
would later recount fascinating stories of his interactions and perceptions of the
luminous figures from the early days of Jungian psychology in Zürich. Jim wrote
various articles for a range of journals on clinical psychology and analytical
psychology. He also published a primer on Jungian psychology in 2002 entitled Jungian
Psychology: Theory and Practice, which is an excellent introduction for training
candidates on the basics of Jungian psychology. Jim was a man of dry wit and
intellectual rigor. He was unassuming (though sometimes feisty), and he possessed a
remarkably generous spirit. Besides being a clinical psychologist, a Jungian analyst,
and an academic, Jim was also a rancher. Indeed, he was truly a pioneer, and he will
be greatly missed.
Submitted by
Jenny Gordon, Secretary
IAAP Newsletter 28 || IAAP Society Reports || Pacific Northwest PNSJA
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