Honorary Members of AJA

Honorary membership has been awarded in recognition of the importance of lifetime achievement and contribution to Jungian ideas in the world.

The work of honorary members connects closely with AJA and its purposes.

Liz Greene – Honorary Member of AJA

Dr Liz Greene is an internationally acclaimed personality, scholar and teacher. An American-British astrologer, psychologist and author, she has been one of the most consistently popular astrologers of the 20th century, co-founding with Howard Sasportas, the Centre for Psychological Astrology in London. She is also an AJA graduate and has practiced clinically as an Analytical Psychologist, and recently accepted the invitation to become an honorary member of AJA in recognition of her contribution to Analytical Psychology. She has written several astrology books based on Jungian psychology and other forms of depth psychology, contributing to an application of astrology called Psychological Astrology. Almost all of her many books remain in print. In addition to giving frequent lectures and directing a certificate programme in psychological astrology, Liz has continued to produce many books, many with direct reference to Jung’s psychology, notably ‘Jung’s Studies in Astrology: Prophecy, Magic, and the Qualities of Time’,

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Sharon Blackie – Honorary Member of AJA

Sharon Blackie (b. 1961 –) is an award-winning and internationally bestselling author, and a psychologist who also has an academic background in mythology and folklore. She has a degree in Psychology, a PhD in Behavioural Neuroscience from the University of London (researching anxiety and panic), MAs in both Creative Writing and in Celtic Studies, along with many other academic and professional trainings in psychology, psychotherapeutic practice, myth and folklore. In her academic years she was awarded research fellowships from the Wellcome Trust at l’Hôpital Pitié-Salpétrière in Paris, and from the Mental Health Foundation at the Institute of Neurology, National Hospital for Nervous Diseases in London. She has been a British Psychological Society-approved Chartered Psychologist (research route) and was formerly in private practice as a psychotherapist with a focus on narrative psychology and the creative imagination. Sharon’s current work is focused on reimagining women’s stories, and on the relevance of myths,

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Andrew Samuels – Honorary Member of AJA

Andrew Samuels (b. 1949 –   ) is a Jungian analyst, educator, author, activist, and prolific thinker in the field of analytical psychology.   His working life includes clinical practice, a tenured professorship in analytical psychology, writing, and political organizing and activism. He has been at the forefront of analytical psychology for the past forty years, focusing upon where it meets other disciplines, in order to increase consciousness, address transformative change, and support evolution. He works in an international context, across multiple cultures around the globe.  His work centres around a post-Jungian and postmodern critique of the strengths, limitations and needed extensions of analytical psychology in modern times. His books include Jung and the Post-Jungians (1985), The Father (1986), A Critical Dictionary of Jungian Analysis (1986, with Bani Shorter and Alfred Plaut), The Plural Psyche (1989), Psychopathology: Contemporary Jungian Perspectives (1992), The Political Psyche (1993), Politics on the Couch: Citizenship and the Internal Life (2001), and A New Therapy for Politics (2016). His books have been

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Anne Baring – Honorary Member of AJA

Anne Baring 1931 – (MA Oxon, PH.D. (hons) in Wisdom Studies, Ubiquity University 2018) was educated in England, France and America. She is a Jungian analyst and the author and co-author of 7 books including, with Jules Cashford, The Myth of the Goddess; Evolution of an Image (1992); with Andrew Harvey, The Mystic Vision (1995) and The Divine Feminine (1996); and with Dr Scilla Elworthy, Soul Power: An Agenda for a Conscious Humanity (2009). Her latest book, published in 2013 and re-printed in 2020, is The Dream of the Cosmos: a Quest for the Soul which was given the Scientific and Medical Network book prize for 2013. Her book for children, The Birds Who Flew Beyond Time, first published in 1993, was based on the Sufi text The Conference of the Birds and was illustrated by the late Thetis Blacker. The ground of all her work is a deep interest in history as well as the spiritual, mythological, shamanic and artistic traditions of different

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