History of the Association
Carl Gustav Jung’s name appeared when Hungarians first came to know Deep Psychology. Indeed, it was he who who drew Sandor Ferenczi’s attention to Sigmund Freud’s work. However, a long time still had to pass after the break between Jung and Freud before Jung’s work met its deserved response in Hungary. Dr. Bertalan Koronkai, psychiatrist, Dr. Ferenc Süle, psychiatrist, Dr. Endre Gyökössy, Calvinist minister and Jungian analyst, Dr. Miklós Bodrog, Evangelical priest, and Blanka G. Donáth, psychologist were among those who started to work with this approach.
In 1980, The Hungarian Psychiatric Association seceded and separated from the Association of Hungarian Neurologists and Psychiatrists. This enabled the autonomous and legal functioning of different psychotherapeutic schools. The Jungian Complex psychotherapeutic Task force was founded as one of the 10 working parties of the Psychotherapeutic Section. Later it became a separate Section and, in 1991, a separate Association. At this time training work at the Association – which was connected to the Jung Institute in Küsnacht (Zürich) - met the requirements of both Hungarian and international professional standards. After this point, Judit Luif and Ferenc Sásdi from Bern helped the training work. Until 1999, the National Psychiatric and Neurological Institute gave a home to the Association and until 2000 its chairman was Dr. Ferenc Süle. Dr. Bertalan Koronkai was elected chairman and the same year the association changed its form to that of a public company. The Association, by taking an even more active part in psychotherapeutic and training work, is working hard on the scholarly improvement and Hungarian presentation of Jungian doctrines.
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