Jung Club Events Biographies

HEATHER ANGEL (GAP, UKCP, IAAP) is a Jungian analyst in private practice on a London houseboat, Lindisfarne, in Battersea. She has a special interest in myth and fairy tales and their application in clinical practice.

JANE BACON, PhD, is a Senior Jungian analyst and supervisor, focusing trainer, teacher of the Discipline of Authentic Movement and Emerita Professor of Dance and Somatics at the University of Chichester. She has a private practice in Northampton, where she offers individual psychotherapy and supervision. She facilitates Authentic Movement groups and retreats in Northampton, London and internationally, as well as embodied dream groups using a process she calls 'Creative Articulations Process'. A list of recent publications, artistic installations and workshops focusing on the relationship between psyche and soma can be found at www.janebacon.net and www.choreographiclab.co.uk

DR EDWARD BLOOMFIELD is a Jungian Analyst and consultant clinical psychologist and has trained as a practitioner in Cognitive Analytic Therapy. He has an MA in Jungian and Post-Jungian Studies. He works part-time in the NHS and has a private practice in London.

PENNY BOISSET is a Senior Analyst with IGAP. Formerly an anthropologist, she has a particular interest in the psychology of kinship. She has a private practice in North Oxfordshire, from where she is also working with migrant and refugee communities.

GEORGE BRIGHT is a training and supervising analyst of The Society of Analytical Psychology and a founder of The Circle of Analytical Psychology, a group set up to provide a forum for a two-year study of Jung's Liber Novus and Black Books. He works in private practice in West London.

Cécile Buckenmeyer is a Jungian Analyst in private practice in Lancaster (UK). She is a senior member of IGAP. She trained at the C.G. Jung Institute in Zürich, where she is an accredited training analyst. She has a long-term interest in the relationship between psyche, culture and place. Recent papers and seminars include The Hestia-Hermes Archetype and the Spirit of the Place, Imagined Places, the Nature of Evil.

STEPHEN BUSHELL has held a life-long fascination for Religion and Spirituality. As a teenager he found the religion section of the public library and has not looked back. He read religious studies at Kings College London, where he discovered the Christian mystical tradition, Hinduism and Buddhism. In his 20s he trained extensively in Tai Chi and Vipassana Meditation. Feeling called to remain rooted in the Western tradition, Stephen became a priest in the Anglican Church and spent fifteen years working as an Anglican chaplain to psychiatric services in the UK. This deep and sustained encounter with the psyche led him to train as an analyst with GAP (London) and later to work in private practice. He is currently setting up a retreat centre in Northern Spain, aiming to run retreats and courses exploring the connections with meditation and Jungian psychology.

PHILIPPA CAMPBELL is a Jungian analyst in private practice in London and Cornwall. She has lectured on topics such as Alchemy, William Blake and the Healing Imagination, Image and Psyche, and the Gods within the Stone. She is a senior member of IGAP.

JOHANNA DAVID graduated from the C. G. Jung-Institute in Zurich in 1993. A senior analyst and supervisor with IGAP, she has served on its council in various capacities. She was part of the IAAP team of supervisors in St Petersburg for five years, has examined for the IAAP in the Ukraine, and has taught in Poland. She lectures and teaches from time to time for IGAP and elsewhere.

ANNE DONALD was born and grew up in Scotland, first in the Western Isles and then in Edinburgh. She worked in management development and change in the corporate world for many years, both in the UK and abroad. She is a Jungian analyst with GAP and has a practice in Oxford.

KAREN EVERS-FAHEY PhD, is a Zurich trained Jungian analyst. She taught analytical psychology and was a training and supervisory analyst in Zurich at ISAP as well as the Jung Institute Zurich for 10 years before returning to her native Canada in 2007 to continue her analytic practice and teaching and training activities. She has a background in psychiatric nursing and is currently an Associate Teaching Professor at the University of Victoria School of Nursing. She received her PhD in 2004 from the Centre for Psychoanalytic Studies, University of Essex, UK. Dr. Evers-Fahey has lectured internationally on topics such as individuation and aging, suffering and healing, and dreams. She published "Toward a Jungian Theory of the Ego" in 2017 with Routledge Press, London, UK.

JIM FITZGERALD is a Jungian analyst with a private practice in London. His background is Ancient Classics and a career in Primary school teaching. He holds a Diploma from the C.G. Jung Institute in Zurich, and is a member of The Independent Group of Analytical Psychologists and of The Guild of Analytical Psychologists. He has lectured widely, in the UK and abroad.

MATEI IAGHER PhD is a historian and analytical psychologist based in London. He obtained his PhD from UCL in 2016, working with Sonu Shamdasani. His first book, on the history of the psychology of religion, was published by Routledge in 2024.

MAXIM ILYASHENKO is a Jungian psychotherapist (UKCP, BACP, EAP) in private practice in London, but originally from the Ukraine where he received his MA Degree in Psychology and trained as a psychotherapist. He speaks Ukrainian, English, French and Russian fluently and defines himself as a multicultural therapist. He has a special interests in the Arts, Spirituality and Jung's Red Book.

GILL KIND is an analytical psychologist, who trained with IGAP and is a member of GAP, IGAP and UKCP. She lives in Fulham and is interested in the overlap of Psychology, Psychiatry and Religion.

RODERICK MAIN, PhD, works at the University of Essex, where he is a professor in the Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies and Director of the Centre for Myth Studies. His most recent book is Breaking the Spell of Disenchantment: Mystery, Meaning, and Metaphysics in the Work of C. G. Jung (Chiron Publications, 2022).

LAURA MARTIN PhD is a Jungian analyst with a private practice in Glasgow, and she is Acting Convener of IGAP. In addition, she is Senior Lecturer in Comparative Literature at the University of Glasgow, where she has taught and researched largely on German, English and American literature from the 18th-20th centuries. She is a member of the Centre for Fantasy and the Fantastic, and currently supervises research mostly on fairy tales, myth, fantasy and the fantastic. More information can be found at: lauramartinpsychotherapy.com and https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/mlc/staff/lauramartin/#researchinterests

DR. DALE MATHERS MB, BS, is a retired psychiatrist, former training analyst and supervisor with the Association of Jungian Analysts. He teaches analytical psychology in the United Kingdom, Ukraine, and Russia. Dale is also interested in creative writing. His publications include An Introduction to Meaning and Purpose in Analytical Psychology (2001, London: Routledge), Alchemy and Psychotherapy (2014, London: Routledge (ed.)), and Depth Psychology and Climate Change (2019, London: Routledge (ed.)).

ROBERT MICHAEL MERCURIO completed his undergraduate studies in Philosophy and then moved to Rome for graduate studies in Theology at the Gregorian University. He later completed a master's degree in management, with a thesis project on the application of Jung's typology to teaching methods adopted in language schools. He subsequently enrolled in the C G Jung Institute in Küsnacht, where he took his diploma in Analytical Psychology. Previously a member of the Centro Italiano di Psicologia Analitica (CIPA), he is currently a member, training analyst and President of the Associazione per la Ricerca in Psicologia Analitica (ARPA). His interests include the practice of active imagination, the interface between spirituality and psychology and myth and fairy tale interpretation.

MAX NOAK is a Theologian and Jungian psychotherapist with a private practice based in London. Originally from East Germany, he has an interest in how our ancestors shape our souls. Max received instruction in contemplative prayer by the Jesuit Franz Jalics. The experience of mystical prayer led to a plunge into the unconscious that paved the way to training as a Psychotherapist.

FFIONA PERIGRINOR trained at the C. G. Jung Institute Zurich in the last century, and is a senior member of IGAP and GAP. She has a private practice in west Oxfordshire, lectures widely and has been working as an analyst in China since 2007. She is particularly interested in bringing insights from Chinese culture to bear on Jung's understanding of the psyche. She is also a medievalist, and has written two scholarly books about women in the Middle Ages together with a recent novel about medieval pilgrims. www.perigrinor.co.uk

DARIANE PICTET has a degree in Comparative Religion from Columbia University and is a diplomate of the C G Jung Institute, Zurich; she also has an Advanced Diploma in Existential Psychotherapy from Regent's University, London. She is a training/supervising analyst at ISAP ZURICH and GAP in London. She enjoys poetry and yoga, and lectures in the UK and abroad. Her latest publications are 'Movements of Soul in the Red Book', in The Red Book For Our Time, vol.1. ed. Murray Stein (Chiron, 2017), and 'Mirroring Self Love' in Quandrant vol.19 (2021).

MIMI POTWOROWSKA is an artist and psychotherapist with a private practice in Southeast London. Originally trained as an art psychotherapist (Goldsmiths), she worked with both adults and children in the public sector, holding the post of Senior Art Therapist at the Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, and initiating art therapy departments in Pupil Referral Units across the borough for Southwark Children's Service. She is also an advanced candidate with IGAP. Currently she is delighted by her developing relationship with a pair of wild crows.

DR TOMMASO PRIVIERO is an academic and analytical psychologist (SAP/BPC/IAAP) based in London. He holds a PhD in History of Psychology from UCL, under Prof Sonu Shamdasani's mentorship. He is the author of Of Fire and Form: Jung, Dante and the Making of the Red Book (Routledge, 2023, with a preface by Shamdasani). He currently holds a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship at Queen Mary University of London.

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.

DR IRENE CIOFFI WHITFIELD received her Ph.D. in Art History from the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University and subsequently trained as a Jungian analytical psychologist with IGAP, London, where she is a Senior Analyst. She is also a full member of the Jungian Psychoanalytic Association in New York City. Her special interest is in the interface between art and psychology and in the dynamic nature of the creative process.

HEBA ZAPHIRIOU-ZARIFI GAP-UKCP-IAAP is a senior Jungian analytical psychologist, a training analyst and a supervisor. She has a private practice in London and consults on mental health projects in the Middle East. Heba founded The Central London Authentic Movement Practice in 2002, and has been a Leader in BodySoul Rhythms © at the Marion Woodman Foundation since 2003. Heba is a speaker at international conferences and is a published writer in academic journals. She read Philosophy to Doctorate level at the Sorbonne where she also gained two Masters degrees.