08/27/2026
What happens when Jung's ideas take up residence inside a major neuroscience institute?
In "Neuroscience Institutes in Collaboration with Jungian Analysts", IAAP member Nancy Swift Furlotti (CGJIC, Colorado) describes two endowments doing exactly that, and placing analytical psychology into direct, funded conversation with brain science.
The first is the Carl Gustav Jung Professorial Endowment at UCLA's Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, established by Furlotti and the Pettit Foundation to advance Jung's work at the interface of neuroscience, mind, body and society.
Its inaugural 2018 symposium – "Jung, Trauma and Neuroscience: Pathways to Healing" – brought Jungian analysts and neuroscientists to the same table, and the endowment is now re-commencing its work in collaboration with the C. G. Jung Institute of Los Angeles.
The second, at Oxford, is the Erel Shalit Carlsberg Foundation Research Fellowship in Behavioural Neuroscience, which supports Professor Morten Kringelbach's Centre for Eudaimonia and Human Flourishing. Among its lines of inquiry: a comparison of Jung's concept of the complex with the imprint of trauma in the brain, and whether the repeating loops each can create might be resolved.
Together they mark something significant: Jung's thought, taken seriously as a research partner within the institutions of contemporary science.
Follow the link in our bio to IAAP News Bulletin No. 53 and look for 'Short articles about neuroscience' to read the article in full.
