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Thirty years ago, Dr Farhad Dalal published his landmark paper, ‘Jung: A Racist’. On October 13, the London conference of the Confederation for Analytical Psychology invited two African American Jungian analysts to speak about key issues in US politics, law, culture and therapy, including racism encountered in their training. Jungian analyst Heather Formaini asks, what took us so long?

Anxieties and panics aren't merely neurobiological dysfunctions. By heading straight into the core of meaning at the heart of symptoms, therapy becomes a place where a deeper sense of order replaces the apparent senselessness of presenting complaints, and clients awaken to areas of self that have control over what previously seemed utterly out of control.