Jung, the Rebirth Motif and Psychedelics I: Documenting Jung's Contact with the British Pioneers.
The Journal of analytical psychology September 1, 2024 Ginny Hill 1 citation
Carl Jung was skeptical about psychedelic drugs and wrote very little about them, but Aldous Huxley's 1954 account of taking mescaline, The Doors of Perception, impressed him enough to invite Huxley to Switzerland. Huxley declined, but his collaborator Humphry Osmond met Jung instead. British psychiatrist Ronald Sandison developed an explicitly Jungian approach to psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy, working with Margot Cutner and connected to the Society of Analytical Psychology through Michael Fordham. Despite Jung's objections, Sandison and Cutner created groundbreaking protocols in the 1950s and were among the first to document spiritual rebirth symbolized in the birth experience known to many LSD therapists.