Analyst status: Training/Supervising Analyst
Academic title: MA
Professional title: Swiss Certified Psychotherapist
Location: Brissago, Switzerland
Country: Switzerland
Specialisations: I Ching Ethnology
Languages spoken: Deutsch/German, English, Français/French, Italiano/Italian
Professional organisations: ASP, IAAP, EAP, bso
Age groups: Adults
Treatment types: Individuals, Groups
Contact: [email protected] +41 44 910 89 86; +41 91 780 92 14

Training/Supervising Analyst

Christa Robinson

Christa Robinson grew up in the vicinity of the Jung family in Küsnacht and therefore had the chance to be trained by the first generation Jungians, starting with Dora Kalff and ending with James Hillman. This worked along the guild system, not the present day institutional system.

She worked for over 40 years as supervisor in the most different projects and institutions (difficult adolescents, immigrants, drug addicts, womens projects, handicapped people, red-light-districts and also well-to-do clients and prestigious persons).

7 years in Switzerlands's largest male prison. She built her own little house in a forgotten mountain valley, which allowed valuable learning about the deeper levels of the Swiss psyche.

10 years at the Jungian "KliniK am Zürichberg" as clinical therapist and later staff supervisor.

20 years in Eranos Foundation, Switzerland and a part of the ISAP leadership council for 8 years.

She teaches the use of the Eranos I Ching in connection with Jungian psychology also in China, where she built up a training program for Jungian clinical work in collaboration with the Mercury Center, Nanjing and the support of ISAP.

She has been published in 5 languages, her work on Hans Schmid-Guisans book "Day and Night" with commentaries from East and West will appear in Fall 2026.

Education

SGAP diploma, 1980
MA, Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften (ZHNW), 1972
BA, Kunst und Erziehung, Hochschule für Gestaltung, ZHNW, Zürich 1961

Selected Publications

Treatment of Chronic Psychosis» (a Joint presentation with Tony Frey) at the 1976 International Association for Analytical Psycology (IAAP) Congress in Rome, and later published in the Journal of Analytical Psychology. 1976
«The Red Velvet Curtain or: How Prospective Psychotherapists Might Imagine their Work and How It Really Is» GORGO, pp. 81-84, Volume 11, 1986. 1986
«King Olaf and the Hen: Harsh Lights on a Failure» GORGO, pp. 73-787, volume 13, 1987. 1987
«Hearing a similar Voice: An «Interview with Christa Robinson» in Robert S. Henderson, Living with Jung»
«Interviews» with Jungian Analysts, Vol. 3 (New Orleans, LA: Spring Journal Books, 2009) 2009
«Images of Archetypal Forces: An «Interview» with Christa Robinson About the I Ching,» Robert S. Henderson, Jung Journal» Culture and Psyche, Vol. 4, NO. 2, Spring 2010. 2010
3 articles in China on I Ching, Trauma and I Ching, Cultural Differences.
«Interview mit Christa Robinson», geführt von Prof. Dr. Carl-Hermann Hempen und Dr. Ute Engelhardt in: Organ der SMS, Societas Medicinae Sinensis, Internationale Gesellschaft für Chinesische Medizin e.V. und der SACAM, Schweizerische Ärztegesellschaft für Akupunktur - Chinesische Medizin - Aurikulomedizin. Springer Medizin, Heft 04/2016, S. 228ff. 2016