Analyst Certification

For 2026–2027:

• Preparatory and Candidacy Stages: $5,075

• Control Stage: $3,075

• Credit card payment: available for a per-transaction handling fee

One hour of supervision a week is included at no charge for candidates in the Preparatory and Candidacy Stages. Personal analysis, control analysis, and some other activities are billed separately and set individually.

Before you apply, you need at least 100 hours of personal analysis with an IAAP-certified Jungian analyst, and you must be in analysis with an IAAP-certified analyst at the time you apply. We encourage applicants to be in consistent analysis the year before applying.

Personal analysis supports both your training and your own individuation, and its shape is necessarily personal. What we can say is this: we value in-person, embodied experience, in analysis as much as in our seminars, so we ask prospective applicants to work with an analyst at our institute. That’s the arrangement we consider optimal, though what serves you best is weighed individually at the time of application.

You must be licensed to practice psychotherapy in California before starting the program. Professional experience and clinical skill are both evaluated as part of admission.

We’re looking for candidates with flexible, mature egos who can think symbolically and engage with the psyche of the people they treat. This program isn’t only academic. It’s also about developing your own capacity to meet the unconscious openly, reflectively, and collaboratively, which is why personal analysis matters so much, both before training and throughout it. We evaluate applicants through their written applications and through meetings with the Admissions Committee.

The C.G. Jung Institute administers admission and every training-program policy without regard to race, gender, sexual orientation, religious affiliation, ethnic or national origin, marital status, age, or disability, as designated by applicable law.

Applications go to the Admissions Committee on forms available from the Institute. Send the original plus four (4) copies of your completed application, along with a $250 non-refundable application fee, by March 12, 2027. The Admissions Committee aims to decide by April of the same year.

Chairperson, Admissions Committee
JUNG Institute of Los Angeles
10349 West Pico Boulevard
Los Angeles, California 90064-2694

Information about scholarships can be found here.

Personal analysis is the foundation of the training. Jung placed real weight on the development of consciousness in relationship to self and to society, and analysis is how that happens here. We recommend analysis two or more times a week for a significant stretch of training. Throughout the program, you’re expected to be in analysis with an IAAP-certified analyst in good standing at our institute. Your analysis stays confidential; no training faculty member may ask your personal analyst for information about you.

Training runs four years, meeting weekly, mostly on Thursdays, September through May. It combines core seminars built around Jung’s Collected Works and later developments in analytical psychology, fifteen hours of electives each year, and occasional weekend seminars and workshops.

Core Seminars, First Year

• Case Colloquium (full year)

• Entrances and Two Essays (Collected Works, Vol. 7)

• Psychological Types (Vol. 6)

• Symbols of Transformation (Vol. 5)

• An Introduction to the ARAS Collection (Beginning Amplification)

• Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious (Vol. 9, i)

• The Structure and Dynamics of the Psyche (Vol. 8)

• Fairy Tales, Myth, and Amplification I

Core Seminars, Second Year
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Core Seminars, Third and Fourth Year

• Alchemy I: Psychology and Alchemy (Vol. 12)

• Psychology and Religion (Vol. 11)

• Dream Interpretation I

• Fairy Tales, Myth, and Amplification II

• Developmental Theories in Analytical Psychology

• Research Project Seminar

• Alchemy II: Mysterium Coniunctionis (Vol. 14)

• Psychology of the Transference (Vol. 16)

• Dream Interpretation II

• Techniques in Active Imagination

• Contemporary Practice in Analytical Psychology

• Elective Seminar, topic and instructor of your choosing (fourth-year ideas: an untaught Jung essay, a book, or articles the class proposes)

Training moves through three stages: Preparatory, Candidacy, and Control. Moving from one to the next depends on an individual evaluation drawing on supervisor and instructor feedback, plus an annual interview with the Review Committee or Certifying Board. An Annual Theoretical Exam runs each spring for the first three years (we make accommodations for learning disabilities). Progressing through the program doesn’t guarantee certification. Evaluation continues up to certification itself, which the Certifying Board grants once every requirement is met.

Clinical consultation runs throughout training, including the Control Stage, when candidates take on an intensive, ongoing case (control analysis). In the earlier stages, you get one hour of consultation a week at no charge, with an analyst of your choosing at the Institute. We encourage working with a different consultant each year, unless staying with the same one clearly serves you better. In the Control Stage, you pay for consultation and must be in control analysis at least once a week while writing your control paper.

Every candidate works in the Kieffer E. Frantz Clinic, the Hilde Kirsch Children’s Center, or both. Candidates in the first two stages contribute 126 clinical hours a year; Control Stage candidates contribute 84. That two-hours-a-week contribution continues after certification, once you’re a certified member of the community.

In your first two years, a group case colloquium links theory to practice. You’ll present case material from your own practice over an extended period and deepen your grasp of the concepts in the core seminars alongside your cohort, meeting with an analyst leader three times a month.

This group builds a culture of safety, trust, openness, honest feedback, and encouragement, which eases some of the stress of training and gives you a place to explore how training affects you, your cohort, and your work with clients. It’s not personal therapy, though what surfaces here may lead you back into your own analysis. It guards against the kind of splitting that can fracture a training institute, and helps build the collegial relationships that tend to outlast training itself. The group meets monthly.

The Creative Project is your chance to follow a personal interest in Jungian psychology, or to connect Jungian thought to something else you care about. It’s meant to support your own individuation, built around a question or calling that comes from your own psyche. The form is yours to choose: a formal paper, a public talk, a performance, whatever fits. Think of it as organized curiosity.

This exam checks your grasp of Jung’s core ideas and your ability to apply them, whether to a real case, a personal experience, or something from literature or film. Content follows each year’s seminars. It has a written and an oral component and runs for the first three years of training.