Ann Casement is a Jungian analyst and author in private practice in London, England.
She attended the Sorbonne in Paris and the London School of Economics where she earned her degree in physical and social anthropology, and later trained as a Jungian analyst in London.
She is an honorary professor at the Oriental Academy for Analytical Psychology, a senior member of the British Jungian Analytic Association, an associate member of the Jungian Psychoanalytic Association in New York City, is a New York State licensed psychoanalyst, a member of the British Psychoanalytic Council, the National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis, and the British Psychological Society. She is also a founding member of the International Neuropsychoanalysis Association, and patron of the Freud Museum in London.
Prof. Casement worked in the field of psychiatry for several years, chaired the UK Council for Psychotherapy from 1997–2001, served on the Executive Committee of the International Association for Analytical Psychology from 2001–2007, and the IAAP Ethics Committee from 2007–2016, becoming its chair in 2010. From 1999–2001 she conducted research working with Lord Alderdice and other stakeholders in the profession on a Private Member’s Bill in the House of Lords on the statutory regulation of the psychotherapy/psychoanalytic profession. Since 2015, she has been teaching and lecturing in China at the initial invitation of Professor Heyong Shen.
She has lectured and taught in many additional countries around the world, including Japan, Russia, the United States, Canada, Israel, Lithuania, Switzerland, South Africa, Brazil, Mexico, and in several countries in Europe. She contributes to The Economist and to psychoanalytic journals worldwide. She served on the Gradiva Awards Committee in 2013, delivered the Fay Lecture at Texas A&M in 2019 (see Ep. 51), is a fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute, a fellow of The Royal Society of Medicine, and was a member of the Council of the Metropolitan Opera in New York.
Prof. Casement is the editor of Post-Jungians Today: Key Papers in Contemporary Analytical Psychology (Routledge, 1998), Who Owns Psychoanalysis? (Routledge, 2004), and Who Owns Jung? (Routledge, 2007). She is co-editor of The Idea of the Numinous: Contemporary Jungian & Psychoanalytic Perspectives with David Tacey (2006), and Thresholds & Pathways Between Jung & Lacan: On the Blazing Sublime with Phil Goss and Dany Nobus (Routledge, 2021).
And she is the author of Carl Gustav Jung (2001), the first edition in the Key Figures in Counselling and Psychotherapy series from SAGE Publications, and the newly-released Jung: An Introduction, published by Phoenix House on April 30th, and it is the subject of our talk today. (The book may also be ordered directly from Phoenix Publishing House in the UK.)
This interview was recorded on Wednesday, May 5, 2021. It’s 01:24:33 long and 73.7 MB. You can listen to it right here in your browser or download it directly to your computer. It’s also available on on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, TuneIn, Spotify, iHeartRadio, and on Amazon Music.
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SHOW NOTES
May 12, 2021: Tanja Stark’s chapter in David Bowie: Critical Perspectives, Crashing Out with Sylvian: David Bowie, Carl Jung & the Unconscious, cited by Prof. Casement in Jung: An Introduction, is available online.
Speaking of Jung, Ep. 51 with Ann Casement Dec. 2, 2019
Phoenix Publishing House Kate Pearce and Fernando Marques
Phoenix Authors Including Coline Covington, Brett Kahr, and Jonathan Sklar
Memories, Dreams, Reflections by C.G. Jung (includes Jung’s visit to India)
Carl Gustav Jung by Ann Casement
Speaking of Jung, Ep. 75 with Sonu Shamdasani Oct. 28, 2020
James Hillman, Ph.D., Jungian analyst Amazon Author Page
Integrating Shadow: Authentic Being in the World The Fay Lecture Series with Ann Casement, Nov. 15-17, 2019
Verena Kast Official website
Verena Kast, Ph.D., Jungian analyst Amazon Author Page
On Narcissism: An Introduction by Sigmund Freud
David Bowie: Critical Perspectives Edited by Eoin Devereux, Aileen Dillane, & Martin Power; includes the chapter “‘Crashing Out with Sylvian’: David Bowie, Carl Jung & the Unconscious”
‘Ziggy Stardust’: How Bowie Created the Alter Ego That Changed Rock by Alan Light, Rolling Stone, Jun. 16, 2016 (full text)
Julian Assange: A Timeline of Wikileaks Founder’s Case by BBC News, Nov. 19, 2019 (full text)
The Secret of the Golden Flower Translated and explained by Richard Wilhelm; Commentary by C.G. Jung
Reading Bion by Rudi Vermote
James S. Grotstein Amazon Author Page
The Tristan Chord: Wagner & Philosophy by Bryan Magee
Lord of the Ring by Lawson Taitte, The New York Times, Dec. 2, 2001 (full text)
The Grail Legend by Emma Jung & Marie-Louise von Franz
Prof. Heyong Shen City University of Macau
Core Psychology: The Lecture of Shen Heyong in FIJI Chinese Edition
IAAP Developing Groups Latin America, Asia, Eastern Europe, Central Europe, Greece, Malta, and Tunisia
I apologize for pronouncing oeuvre incorrectly. ~LL