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

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, Jungian

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

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, 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 Zürichberg. Meier was born in

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, in 1905. He enrolled at the University of Zürich 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 Steinhof (the Psychiatric Clinic of the University of Vienna), and to attend the lectures of Julius Wagner-Jauregg. 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.

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

References

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