Paul Brutsche, Ph.D. is a Jungian psychoanalyst in private practice in Zürich, Switzerland.
Born in Jung’s hometown of Basel, he studied in Fribourg, Innsbruck, and Paris, and earned a master’s degree in philosophy from the University Les Fontaines. He then returned to Switzerland to study psychology and graduated with a doctorate from the University of Zürich where his thesis was on the importance of perspective in analysand drawings.
He trained as a Jungian psychoanalyst at the C.G. Jung Institute Zürich where he earned a Diploma in Analytical Psychology and became director of the institute’s picture archives. He later served as president for five years followed by a stint on the board and two years as president of the faculty.
Dr. Brutsche went on to become co-founding president of the International School of Analytical Psychology in Zürich (ISAPZURICH) where he continues to work as a lecturer, training analyst and supervisor. In 2016, he presented their Zürich Lecture Series speaking on the topics of picture interpretation, symbolism in art, and questions of creativity. His book, Creativity: Patterns of Creative Imagination as Seen Through Art, originally published by Spring Journal Books, was re-published in 2020 as Volume 4 of the Zürich Lecture Series by Chiron Publications.
His 2016 interview with Jungian analyst and Speaking of Jung guest Luis Moris, Ph.D. (Ep. 90 & 139) is included in Blue Salamandra Films’ DVD series “Jungians Speaking,” and his essay, “The Creative Power of Soul: A Central Testimony of Jung’s Red Book,” was published in Volume 3 of Jung’s Red Book for our Time: Searching for Soul Under Postmodern Conditions.
Dr. Brutsche is well-known for playing the role of C.G. Jung in numerous stage productions, including the Jung-Neumann Letters, The Red Book, The Analyst and the Rabbi, and most recently, Eranos: A Play. His essay, “From the Perspective of an Actor in the Play,” was published in the book The Analyst and the Rabbi, which also includes the screenplay by Jungian analysts Murray Stein, Ph.D. and Henry Abramovitch, Ph.D., both of whom joined me to discuss the play in Episode 47. And his essay, “‘I came to look at the stone you have placed in the garden’: On the Symbolic Significance of the Stone of Eranos,” was published in the book, Eranos: A Play, released earlier this year by Chiron.
This year’s Zürich Lecture Series, “The Art of the Self: The Blue Book of Olga Fröbe-Kapteyn, founder of Eranos,” will be presented by Ricardo Bernardini, Ph.D. Dr. Brutsche will be participating in the Postlude Lectures on a panel that includes Speaking of Jung guests Murray Stein and Dariane Pictet. “The Symbolic Attitude: What is It?” will be held on Friday, October 17th, at the Psychology Club in Zürich, and livestreamed on Zoom, from 10 am to 12 pm.
This episode was recorded on Wednesday, August 6, 2025. It’s 54:39 long and 52.6 MB. You can stream it right here inside your web browser (click the play button below) or watch the video edition on our YouTube channel.
SHOW NOTES
Temenos Dream App Tutorial New video tutorial posted on Jul. 31, 2025
Analytical Psychology in Exile The Correspondence of C.G. Jung and Erich Neumann
Episode 134 Jungian analyst Brian Mayo on the psychology of tattoos
Picture Archive C.G. Jung Institute Zürich
Picture Collection ISAP Zürich
The Jung-White Letters Correspondence between C.G. Jung and Father Victor White
C.G. Jung—The Basel Years: A Walking Guide by Kathrin Schaeppi, Jungian analyst
2025 Zürich Lecture Series ISAPZURICH, Friday, Oct. 15–18, 2025
Zürich Lecture Series Postlude Lecture Panel Psychology Club Zürich and on Zoom, Friday, Oct. 17, 2025 from 10:00 am – 12:00 pm CST
C.G. Jung – The Basel Years: A Walking Guide by Kathrin Schaeppi, Jungian analyst
IAAP Congress XXIII International Congress of Analytical Psychology, 24–29 August, 2025, in Zürich, Switzerland
The Blum Collection ISAP Picture Collection painting exhibition, 26–29 August 2025, Daily 10:00–17:00, Apéro 28 August 19:00–20:00
The Red Book: Liber Novus by C.G. Jung (currently 46% off at Amazon US)
The Analyst and the Rabbi by Murray Stein, Ph.D. and Henry Abramovitch, Ph.D.
Episode 47 with Jungian analysts Murray Stein and Henry Abramovitch
Eranos: A Play by Murray Stein, Ph.D. and Henry Abramovitch, Ph.D.
Memories, Dreams, Reflections by C.G. Jung and Aniela Jaffé
Synchronicity is “the correspondence of external and internal events through a factor of meaning that expresses itself simultaneously in things and in inner experience.” Paul Brutsche, Eranos: A Play, p. 85
Correction: Dr. Brutsche meant 137, not 143.
The Blogs: One Hundred and Thirty Seven by Roger M. Kaye, The Times of Israel
Synchronicity by C.G. Jung; with a new foreword by Sonu Shamdasani, Ph.D.
Face to Face John Freeman interviews Professor Carl Gustav Jung at his lakeside home near Zürich
Matter of Heart: The Extraordinary Journey of C.G. Jung
BOOKS
ISAPZURICH: A Journey – The International School of Analytical Psychology in Zürich, 2004-2014 (Revised Edition) Edited by Isabelle Meier, Paul Brutsche, Deborah Egger, and Murray Stein (ISAP, 2015)
Creativity: Patterns of Creative Imagination as Seen Through Art by Paul Brutsche, Ph.D. (Spring Journal Books, 2018) | Zürich Lecture Series Edition from Chiron Publications
Jung’s Red Book for Our Time: Searching for Soul Under Postmodern Conditions, Vol. 3 Edited by Murray Stein, Ph.D. and Thomas Arzt, Ph.D. (Chiron Publications, 2019); includes Dr. Brutsche’s essay, “The Creative Power of Soul: A Central Testimony of Jung’s Red Book”
Creativity: Patterns of Creative Imagination as Seen Through Art – The Zürich Lecture Series, Vol. 4 by Paul Brutsche, Ph.D. (Chiron Publications, 2020)
The Analyst and the Rabbi by Murray Stein, Ph.D. and Henry Abramovitch, Ph.D. (Chiron Publications, 2019); includes Dr. Brutsche’s essay, “From the Perspective of an Actor in the Play”
Eranos: A Play by Murray Stein, Ph.D. and Henry Abramovitch, Ph.D. (Chiron Publications, 2025); includes Dr. Brutsche’s essay, “I came to look at the stone you have placed in the garden”: On the Symbolic Significance of the Sone of Eranos”
LINKS
ISAP Profile Page Paul Brutsche, Ph.D.
ISAP Library Picture Collection
(DVD) Jungians Speaking Interview with Luis Moris of Blue Salamandra Films (out of print)
(VIDEO) The Analyst and the Rabbi Full stage production
(AUDIO) Speaking of Jung, Ep. 47 The Analyst and the Rabbi with authors Murray Stein, Ph.D. and Henry Abramovitch, Ph.D.
(AUDIO) Eranos: A Play Full stage production