Martin Schmidt

Martin Schmidt is a Jungian training analyst and supervisor with the Society of Analytical Psychology in London, where he maintains a private practice in South London with over thirty years of clinical experience. A member of the British Psychological Society, he previously worked for more than two decades as a psychologist and psychotherapist in psychiatric rehabilitation, with a particular clinical focus on psychosis, narcissism, and borderline personality disorder. Schmidt served as Honorary Secretary of the International Association for Analytical Psychology and as its Regional Organiser for Central Europe from 2016 to 2019, and has taught and supervised in over twenty countries. He co-edited The Complexity of Trauma: Jungian and Psychoanalytic Approaches to the Treatment of Trauma with Luisa Zoppi, published by Routledge, and has contributed papers to the International Journal of Analytical Psychology, the Russian Journal of Analytical Psychology, Studi Junghiani, the Chinese Journal of Analytical Psychology, and Cahiers de Psychoanalyses. His paper on psychotic defences and borderline process won the Fordham Prize for best clinical paper in 2012 and received a Gradiva Award nomination in 2013. He also lectures on post-graduate arts therapies programmes at the Universities of Roehampton and Hertfordshire.