Carl Alfred Meier (19 April 1905 – 1995) was a Swiss

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, and first president of the C. G. Jung Institute in Zürich. As a successor to

Carl Jung Carl Gustav Jung ( ; ; 26 July 1875 – 6 June 1961) was a Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who founded analytical psychology. Jung's work has been influential in the fields of psychiatry, anthropology, archaeology, literature, ph ...

, he held the Chair of Honorary Professor of Psychology at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in 1949. Later, co-founded the Clinic and Research Center for Jungian Psychology in

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. Meier was born in

Schaffhausen Schaffhausen (; gsw, Schafuuse; french: Schaffhouse; it, Sciaffusa; rm, Schaffusa; en, Shaffhouse) is a town with historic roots, a municipality in northern Switzerland, and the capital of the canton of the same name; it has an estimate ...

Switzerland ). Swiss law does not designate a ''capital'' as such, but the federal parliament and government are installed in Bern, while other federal institutions, such as the federal courts, are in other cities (Bellinzona, Lausanne, Luzern, Neuchâtel ...

, in 1905. He enrolled at the

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in 1924. In the winter semester of 1927, Meier traveled to Paris to study at the Medical Faculty of the

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. Later, in 1928, he traveled to

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to study at the

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(the Psychiatric Clinic of the University of Vienna), and to attend the lectures of

Julius Wagner-Jauregg Julius Wagner-Jauregg (; 7 March 1857 – 27 September 1940) was an Austrian physician, who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1927, and is the first psychiatrist to have done so. His Nobel award was "for his discovery of the therapeu ...

. A colleague at Steinhof invited him to attend a series of Wednesday seminars delivered by

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. In 1931, he began his study of psychiatry under Hans-Wolfgang Maier at

Burghölzli The ''Psychiatrische Universitätsklinik Zürich'' (Psychiatric University Hospital Zürich) is a psychiatric hospital in Switzerland. As a research hospital, it is associated with the University of Zürich. It is also called Burghölzli, after ...

Books

* ''A Testament to the Wilderness, C.A. Meier'', * ''Consciousness (Psychology of C.G. Jung, Vol 3), C.A. Meier'', * ''Healing Dream and Ritual: Ancient Incubation and Modern Psychotherapy, C. A. Meier'', * ''Jung and analytical psychology, C.A. Meier'', ASIN B0007DOKTM * ''Jung and Analytical Psychology, C.A. Meier'', * ''Personality and Typology (Psychology of C.G. Jung, Vol 4), C.A. Meier'', * ''Personality: The Individuation Process in Light of C.G. Jung's Typology, C.A. Meier, David N. Roscoe (Translator)'', * ''Soul and Body: Essays on the Theories of C.G. Jung, C.A. Meier'', * ''The Meaning and Significance of Dreams (Psychology of C.G.Jung, Vol 2), C.A. Meier'', * ''The Unconscious in Its Empirical Manifestations, C.A. Meier, Eugene Rolfe (Translator)'', * ''The Unconscious in Its Empirical Manifestations (Psychology of C.G. Jung, Vol 1), C.A. Meier'', * ''Traum und Symbol, C.A. Meier'', ASIN B0007DSWQE 1905 births 1995 deaths History of psychiatry Jungian psychologists Swiss psychiatrists 20th-century Swiss physicians People from Schaffhausen Members of the Vienna Psychoanalytic Society {{psychologist-stub