Leslie Zimmermann, accredited Jungian Analyst, based in Johannesburg is a member of the Southern African Association of Jungian Analysts (SAAJA). SAAJA operates from the beautiful city of Cape Town where the C. G. Jung Centre, Cape Town is situated.
The information on this page has been taken directly from the SAAJA page:
http://www.jungsouthernafrica.org.za
SAAJA
The Southern African Association of Jungian Analysts (SAAJA) is a professional society of accredited Jungian Analysts. It provides postgraduate training in Jungian analysis for health professionals, public events that are informed by Jungian thought, and has a library with Jungian literature.
The Association with its library is located at the C G Jung Centre in Cape Town. It has connections with Jung groups in other centres throughout South Africa, and is affiliated with the International Association of Jungian Analysts (IAAP).
HOW IT ALL BEGAN
The Southern African Association of Jungian Analysts (SAAJA) began with the vision of Dr. Vera Buhrman in the mid 1980’s. Her journey to understand the conflicting opposites in South African society during the dark years under the Apartheid regime led her to Jung, and eventually to the formation of SAAJA. A graduate of the medical school at Cape Town University in 1935, she devoted herself to child welfare services, where she became a pioneer in South Africa in promoting structures that specifically addressed mother/child relationship issues. She went to London in the 1950’s to train both as a child psychotherapist in the Public Health Services, and as a Jungian Analyst with Michael Fordham’s group. She returned to South Africa and was able to realize her vision of establishing a training centre for Jungian analysts in Cape Town, the first of its kind in Africa.
Her immersion in the complexities of South African culture led her to undertake extensive transcultural research in !Xhosa traditional healing methods during the 1970’s and l980’s. This resulted in over twenty publications and her seminal book “Living in Two Worlds” published in 1984 (Human and Rousseau, Cape Town).
The training of the first group of candidates under, at times, very challenging conditions culminated in 1992 with eight candidates graduating as members of the International Association of Jungian Analysts (IAAP) in Chicago. At the IAAP conference in Zurich in 1995, SAAJA was granted the status of a training institute. SAAJA currently has thirty members and runs a four-year training programme.
SAAJA ASSOCIATE MEMBERSHIP
An important aim of South African Association of Jungian Analysts (SAAJA) is to increase public awareness of the psychology of C.G. Jung. To this end the Public Programme Committee arranges monthly lectures on Analytical Psychology and related topics and publishes a bi-annual journal, MANTIS. Additional activities such as workshops, evening seminars and video showings, as well as wilderness weekends, are organised from time to time by SAAJA members.
Psychologists, psychiatrists, other health professionals and members of the general public are invited to become associate members of SAAJA. This will entitle you to reduced entrance fees to our lectures and other activities, as well as two copies of MANTIS per year.
Contact
Telephone/Fax: +27 (0)21 689 6090
email: saaja@southernafrica.org.za
Web: www.jungsouthernafrica.org.za
Address: C G Jung Centre, 87 Main Road, Rosebank, Cape Town 7700
Postal Address: P O Box 589, Rondebosch, 7701
Hours: 8.30am – 1pm Monday to Friday
Library: Tues: 10am – 2pm; Thurs: 2 – 5pm
Persons wishing to be emailed about events of interest please send your e-mail addresses to the Administrative Officer of SAAJA. To become an Associate Member of SAAJA, please complete and return the linked form.
Leslie Zimmermann is a Jungian Analyst trained in the philosophy and psychology of C.G. Jung in Zurich and is based in Johannesburg. She offers a range of services, which she integrates, to meet the needs and aspirations of people. In a word, her work is in the service of wholeness. Wholeness includes both our vulnerabilities and our strengths, becoming conscious of our own unique mix of these, honoring our own unique way of functioning and with this knowledge and confidence, contributing as only we each can in our own way, to this evolving world we find ourselves to be a part of.
Besides having a Diplomate qualification in Analytical psychology, which qualifies me to write about the theory and practice of dream interpretation, I also have an Honours degree in Applied Psychology and a Masters degree in Research psychology, which qualify me to write about theories of human development, personality, abnormal psychology, social psychology, sociology and ethics. Also, theories and knowledge pertaining to sleep and dreams from a perspective of neuropsychological and biological systems.
Leslie specializes in Analytical Psychology, Voice Dialogue, Life Coaching solutions for business executives. Consulting and coaching for family owned and home-based business
For an appointment Leslie Zimmermann can be contacted on:
Email: leslie.zimmermann@gmail.com
Mobile: +27 (0)83 384 9812
Member: SAPC (South African Psychoanalytic Confederation); AGAP (Association of Graduate Analytical Psychologists, Switzerland); SAAJA (Southern African Association of Jungian Analysts); IAAP (International Association for Analytical Psychology)