Meier, C(arl) A(lfred) (1905-)

Swiss Jungian psychotherapist who wrote on parapsychology. He was born on April 19, 1905, at Schaffhausen, Switzerland. He was educated at University of Paris Medical School, the University of Venice, and the University of Zurich Medical School (M.D.).

Besides his private practice as a psychotherapist, he was an assistant, then director, of laboratory research at the Burghölzli Psychiatric Clinic of Zurich University (1930-36) and became a professor of psychology at Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, in 1949. Meier served as president of the C. G. Jung Institute, Zurich (1948-57) and was editor of Studien aus dem C. G. Jung Institute (1949-57). In 1957 he founded the International Association for Analytical Psychology.

Meier wrote Jung and Analytical Psychology (1959) and many articles on psychotherapy, Jungian analysis, and other psychological topics. He had a special interest in relationships between the unconscious and extrasensory perception. Meier edited Studien zu C. G. Jung's Psychologie written by Toni Wolff(1959).

Sources:

Meier, Carl A. Ancient Incubation and Modern Psychotherapy. Evanston, Ill.: Northwestern University Press, 1968.

——. "C. G. Jung's Concept of Synchronicity." In Proceedings of the First International Conference of Parapsychological Studies (1955).

——. "Jung's 'Meaningful Coincidence.'&43" Tomorrow (spring 1954).

——. "Projection, Transference, and Subject-Object Relation." In Proceedings of the International Symposium on Psychology and Parapsychology (1957).

——. "Psychological Background of So-Called Spontaneous Phenomena." In Proceedings of the Conference on Spontaneous Phenomena (1957).