Thomas B Kirsch

Thomas B. Kirsch is a Jungian analyst in private practice in Palo Alto, California, and the son of two first-generation Jungian analysts, James and Hilde Kirsch, who began their analytic work with C. G. Jung in 1929. He graduated from Yale Medical School (1961), did his residency in psychiatry in the Department of Psychiatry at Stanford University, and then spent two years with the National Institute of Mental Health in San Francisco. He completed his Jungian training at the C. G. Jung...See more

Thomas B. Kirsch is a Jungian analyst in private practice in Palo Alto, California, and the son of two first-generation Jungian analysts, James and Hilde Kirsch, who began their analytic work with C. G. Jung in 1929. He graduated from Yale Medical School (1961), did his residency in psychiatry in the Department of Psychiatry at Stanford University, and then spent two years with the National Institute of Mental Health in San Francisco. He completed his Jungian training at the C. G. Jung Institute of San Francisco (1968). He was president of the C.G. Jung Institute of San Francisco from 1976-8, served on the executive committee of the International Association for Analytical Psychology, 1977-95, and was IAAP president 1989-95. Dr. Kirsch was the co-editor of the Jungian Section of the International Encyclopaedia of Psychoanalysis, Psychiatry, and Neurology (1977), as well as editor of the Jungian section of the three-volume International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis edited by Alain de Mijolla, 2005. He is the author of The Jungians: A Comparative and Historical Perspective (Routledge 2000), consulting editor of The Jung-Kirsch Letters (Routledge 2011), the correspondence between his father James Kirsch and C. J. Jung, as well as the author of many published chapters in books, articles in scientific journals, and book reviews. He co-edited with George Hogenson The Red Book: Reflections on C.G. Jung's Liber Novus (Routledge 2013), and his memoir, A Jungian Life, was published in 2014. For more information on Dr. Kirsch, see his website at ... See less