Dariane Pictet is a Jungian psychoanalyst, training analyst and supervisor at the International School for Analytical Psychology in Zürich, Switzerland.
Born in Geneva, Switzerland, she began her college education in the United States where she earned a degree in Comparative Religion from Columbia University in the City of New York. She then went on to Paris where she attended drama school and then to London where she worked as a poetry editor at the Literary Review.
While in London, Dariane earned an Advanced Diploma in Existential Psychotherapy and Counselling at Regent’s College, and worked in a primary care setting as an addictions counsellor. She trained as a Jungian psychoanalyst at the C.G. Jung Institute Zürich, graduating with a Diploma in Analytical Psychology (the degree of a Jungian analyst) in 2001.
She is also a graduate of the Leadership Training Program of the Marion Woodman Foundation and is a facilitator of their BodySoul Rhythms-affiliated workshops.
Dariane spent seven years as a Visiting Lecturer in the School of Psychotherapy and Counselling at Regent’s University, and for nine years worked as a training and supervising analyst on the senior faculty of the Independent Group of Analytical Psychologists (IGAP) in London.
Since 2002, she has been working as a training analyst, seminar leader and supervisor for the Guild of Analytical Psychologists (GAP) in London, and since 2004, has been a training and supervising analyst and lecturer at the International School for Analytical Psychology in Zürich (ISAPZURICH). She has lectured at the Ahmedabad Jung Center in India, the China Society for Analytical Psychology (CSAP) in Guangzhou, and lectures regularly at the Jung Club of London.
Her publications include “Movements of Soul in The Red Book,” published in Volume 1 of Jung’s Red Book for Our Time, “When the Queen Dies”: Psychic Incest, Grief, and the Journey of the Soul in “Allerleirauh,” scheduled to be published this year in Quadrant, and “She Walks Northward: The Healing of the Heart in Andersen’s Snow Queen,” which will be published in the February 2026 edition of Jung Journal.
A trained actress, Dariane played the role of “Woman” in the stage performance of The Analyst and the Rabbi, written by Jungian analysts Murray Stein and Henry Abramovitch (the subject of Ep. 47), and last year she took on the role of Eranos founder Olga Fröbe-Kapteyn in Eranos: A Play, also by Drs. Stein and Abramovitch. Additionally, Dariane has played roles in productions of the Jung-Neumann Letters and C.G. Jung: The Red Book.
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SHOW NOTES
BodySoul Rhythms The Marion Woodman Foundation
Modern Man in Search of a Soul by C.G. Jung
The Analyst and the Rabbi: The Play Full stage production available on YouTube
The Analyst and the Rabbi: The Book by Murray Stein, Ph.D. and Henry Abramovitch, Ph.D.
Speaking of Jung, Episode 47 Jungian analysts Murray Stein, Ph.D. and Henry Abramovitch, Ph.D. on The Analyst and the Rabbi
Scenes from The Red Book Page by Dariane about their stage performances
Jung’s Red Book for Our Time: Searching for Soul Under Postmodern Conditions, Vol. 1 Includes Dariane’s essay, “Movements of Soul in The Red Book”
Speaking of Jung, Episode 49 Jung’s Red Book for Our Time with Murray Stein, Ph.D., Thomas Arzt, Ph.D., Steven Buser, M.D., and Lance Owens, M.D.
Jung’s Red Book for Our Time 5-volume book series
The Red Book: Liber Novus by C.G. Jung (currently 26% off)
Facing Multiplicity: Psyche, Nature, Culture Proceedings of the XVIII Congress of the International Association for Analytical Psychology, Montreal 2010
International IAAP Congress 2010 One page review of the 2010 Congress in Montreal
Eranos: A Play Book includes essays by the play’s authors Murray Stein and Henry Abramovitch; Dariane Pictet, Kathrin Schaeppi, Paul Brutsche, John Hill, Gary Hayes, Barbara Helen Miller, Dale Kushner, Michael Posnick, Luis Moris, and Riccardo Bernardini
Eranos: A Play Full audio on YouTube
History of Eranos From their website
Olga Fröbe-Kapteyn artista-ricercatrice Vincent van der Marck production
Olga Fröbe-Kapteyn: la «grande madre» di Eranos (Italian) FJ, November 2021-February 2022
ARAS The Archive for Research in Archetypal Symbolism
Eranos yearbooks Published by Daimon Verlag, Einsiedeln, Switzerland
ARAS books From their website
The Great Mother: An Analysis of the Archetype by Erich Neumann, Ph.D., Jungian analyst
Marion Woodman Speaking of Jung’s tribute page
Addiction to Perfection: The Still Unravished Bride by Marion Woodman, Jungian analyst
The Pregnant Virgin: A Process of Psychological Transformation by Marion Woodman, Jungian analyst
2025 Zürich Lecture Series “The Art of the Self: The Blue Book of Olga Fröbe-Kapteyn, founder of Eranos,” presented by Riccardo Bernardini, Ph.D., Jungian analyst, Oct. 15-16, 2025
Murray Stein interviews Riccardo Bernardini Video interview about this year’s Zürich Lecture Series
The Blue Book of Olga Fröbe-Kapteyn, founder of Eranos Upcoming presentation by Jungian analyst Riccardo Bernardini, Ph.D. at the 2025 International Congress of Analytical Psychology
Jungian Odyssey Archive ISAPZURICH
Sherene Vismaya on Instagram
Images from the Collective Unconscious: Olga Fröbe-Kapteyn & the Eranos Archive by Frederika Tevebring, Public Domain Review, Feb. 22, 2023
Meditation Drawing Screenprints by Olga Fröbe-Kapteyn, The Art Institute of Chicago
PUBLICATIONS
“She Walks Northward: The Healing of the Heart in Andersen’s Snow Queen.” Jung Journal: Culture & Psyche, Vol. 20 (Feb. 2026).
“When the Queen Dies”: Psychic Incest, Grief, and the Journey of the Soul in “Allerleirauh” in (Quadrant 2025).
“Reflections on Olga.” In Eranos: A Play, by Murray Stein & Henry Abramovitch (Chiron, 2024).
“Mirroring Self-Love.” (Quadrant, Vol. 19 2021).
“Movements of Soul in The Red Book.” In Jung’s Red Book for Our Time, Vol. 1, eds. Murray Stein & Thomas Arzt (Chiron, 2017).
Silence in Christian Mysticism in Echoes of Silence. (2013 Spring Journal Books).