Emilija Kiehl

Emilija Kiehl is a Jungian Analyst in private practice in London and one of the most prominent institutional figures in contemporary analytical psychology. She serves as Vice President of the International Association for Analytical Psychology (IAAP), is a former Chair of the British Jungian Analytic Association (BJAA), and holds the position of Training Analyst and Training Supervisor for the BJAA. She is a senior member of the British Psychotherapy Foundation (BPF), where she is registered under number 17317 to work with adults and provide supervision.

Kiehl's clinical and scholarly work centers on the intersection of Jungian psychology with social and political activism. She organized the landmark first IAAP conference on Analysis and Activism in London in 2014, which brought together analytical psychologists from around the world to examine the social and political dimensions of their work. She co-edited the resulting volume Analysis and Activism: Social and Political Contributions of Jungian Psychology (Routledge, 2016) with Mark Saban and Andrew Samuels, and subsequently co-edited Political Passions and Jungian Psychology: Social and Political Activism in Analysis with Stefano Carta. More recently, she co-authored The Self, Individuation, Communitas: Reflections on Fundamental Values in Analytical Psychology with Murray Stein.

She teaches on the BJAA external courses and on the BJAA/Birkbeck, University of London MSc in the Psychodynamics of Human Development. Her clinical specializations include developmental Jungian psychoanalysis of social, cultural, and early relational trauma, depression, anxiety, eating disorders, relationship difficulties, adjustment to life transitions, creativity, and dream work.