The New School for Analytical Psychology

The New School for Analytical Psychology in Seattle is a consortium of clinician-scholars. We value the New, with an approach to knowledge that emphasizes our embeddedness in a contemporary cultural context. An ethical obligation to the ‘other’ is a prime concern. Our School of Analytical Psychology honors the ancient, the modern, and the post-modern, embracing education as a never-ending dialogical process that does not hold fast to a single theory or ideology. Analytical psychology emphasizes our origins in the world of clinical analysis.

An ethos increasingly shared by many clinicians questions traditional assumptions about the analytic process. At the New School for Analytical Psychology, we want to explore such questions as:

  • To what degree can we ‘know’ the mystery of the ‘other’ whom we encounter – face to face?
  • How does our historical, political and cultural context affect the suffering of our patients and our world, and how do we include this in the analytic process?
  • How can we honor uncertainty and mystery, while responsibly sharing our knowledge and ourselves?
  • Amidst the terrible suffering that we often witness, how can we maintain empathic attunement to self as well as ‘other’?

We value a broad understanding of self and world, but also view the therapeutic encounter as a mysterious meeting, where a transformative spirit of life may emerge within the gaps in our knowing. This attitude counters the traditional view of the analyst as ‘the one who knows,’ the one who fills voids in the therapeutic process with his or her own version of meaning. Our approach eschews therapeutic actions that ‘appropriate’ the uniqueness of the other. We regard analysis as a dialogical process from which ‘goals’ emerge in their uniqueness, often as surprises—not something an ‘authority’ could know beforehand.

The Wanderer Above The Sea of Fog
Caspar David Friedrich, 1818
The wanderer envisions the vast horizons ahead as well as the uncertainty of what lies beneath the fog.

Our intent at the New School for Analytical Psychology is to provide and facilitate studies that will enlarge knowledge and experience of such core questions and values.

Directors of The New School for Analytical Psychology

a-pair-of-shoes-van-gough
Vincent Van Gough, 1887
A well-worn pair of shoes that speaks to the difficult path we all walk in life. The image of ‘The Wanderer’ is grand, spiritual, mysterious. Van Gough’s ‘A Pair of Shoes’ is simple, down to earth, particular.
Ladson Hinton, MA, MDJungian Psychoanalyst
Ladson Hinton is a member of the Society of Jungian Analysts of Northern California, the Institute for Contemporary Psychoanalysis in Los Angeles, and a founding member of the New School for Analytical Psychology in Seattle.

Robin McCoy BrooksJungian Psychoanalyst
Robin McCoy Brooks (USA) is a Jungian psychoanalyst and clinical consultant in private practice in Seattle Washington, USA. She is a founding member of the New School for Analytical Psychology, active analyst member of the Inter-Regional Society of Jungian Analysts and the International Association for Analytical Psychology.

Sharon R. Green, LICSWJungian Psychoanalyst
Sharon R. Green, LICSW, is a member of the IAAP and a founding member of the New School for Analytical Psychology in Seattle. Sharon earned her B.A. degree in Modern Dance and her Master’s degree in Social Work from the University of Texas at Austin.

Kenneth A. Kimmel, LMFTJungian Psychoanalyst
Kenneth Kimmel, Jungian psychoanalyst, writer, teacher and consultant, has maintained a private psychotherapy practice in Seattle since 1984. He is a founding member of The New School for Analytical Psychology while retaining membership in the Inter-Regional Society of Jungian Analysts. He has engaged in a lifelong study of dreams, having worked clinically with over thirty thousand dreams.

Hessel WillemsenJungian Psychoanalyst
Hessel Willemsen is a Jungian psychoanalyst who received a Master of Science degree from Delft University of Technology and a Master of Arts degree in Clinical and Health Psychology from Leiden University.

Tony StantonPsychiatrist
Tony Stanton M.D. is an adult and child psychiatrist who has devoted the greater part of his career to directing and consulting with community mental health programs for adults, children, and adolescents. These have included inpatient and outpatient facilities, residential programs and programs for the developmentally disabled.

Michael J. Horne, MDConsulting Editor for the Journal of Analytical Psychology - In Memorium
Michael passed away in April of 2016. He left us all with a rich collection of his distinguished works to share with the world.

Parable of the Blind by Pieter Breugel the Elder, 1568

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