Kristina Schellinski

Kristina Schellinski is a Jungian training analyst, supervisor, psychotherapist, and author based near Geneva, Switzerland. She holds a diploma from the C.G. Jung Institute Zürich-Küsnacht and maintains Swiss federal licensure as a psychotherapist. With over twenty-five years of analytical practice, she works as a teaching analyst and supervisor at the C.G. Jung Institute Zürich and serves as a consultant with the Geneva University Hospital (HUG) Psychiatry Department. Before entering the field of analytical psychology, she spent fifteen years working for UNICEF in New York and Geneva from 1983 to 1998.

Schellinski's clinical and scholarly work centers on the transgenerational transmission of unconscious content, the psyche-soma connection, and the psychology of the replacement child — individuals born after the death of a sibling who carry an inherited atmosphere of grief. Her 2019 book, Individuation for Adult Replacement Children: Ways of Coming into Being, published by Routledge, draws on over two decades of clinical research and twenty-one case studies to demonstrate how adult replacement children can rediscover the essence of their being through the individuation process. She has published extensively in the Journal of Analytical Psychology, Cahiers Jungiens de Psychanalyse, and contributed chapters to volumes on cultural complexes, collective trauma, and somatic countertransference. She co-founded the Replacement Child Forum, an international resource platform for professionals and replacement children.