Tina Keller Jenny

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Tina Keller Jenny

Tina Keller Jenny (* 1887 ; † October 25, 1985 in Geneva ) was a Swiss doctor and psychotherapist for the Jungians. With C. G. Jung and Toni Wolf she experienced firsthand the development of analytical psychology (1915–1928). Keller was one of the first people to do an in-depth analysis on Jung. According to C. G. Jung's recollections, she was one of the "few" whom he considered suitable.

biography

As the daughter of the industrialist Conrad Jenny, she grew up in the Jenny Castle in Thalwil. Despite her upper class environment, she trained as a nurse after a stay at Cheltenham Ladies' College in London . In 1912 she married the theologian Adolf Keller and had five children. But the role of just standing there as a pastor's wife irritated her and she envied her husband's labor. He introduced her to C. G. Jung, who recommended an analysis. Tina Keller's analysis presented itself at the same time as training to be a psychoanalyst . She made up her school-leaving certificate , completed her medical degree in 1931 and was one of the first women in Switzerland to set up a Jungian psychiatric practice in Geneva.

Tina Keller was a pioneer in integrating movement and dance into her analyzes. Dance / movement as an active fantasy originated in 1916 by C. G. Jung and was practiced by Tina Keller and other analysts, but remained largely unknown until the 1950s when it was rediscovered by the therapist Mary Whitehouse . (After studying with Martha Graham and Mary Wigman , Whitehouse later became a dancer and dance teacher of modern dance herself .)

Together with the dance therapist, dancer and cabaret artist Trudi Schoop , she worked in a psychiatric clinic in Los Angeles after the death of her husband in 1963 . Back in Switzerland, she was the last of C. G. Jung's early collaborators to give the speech on the 10th anniversary of his death.

Tina Keller had patients and therapies until she was old, like her great-nephew and painter Daniel Garbade . She wrote books and theses and died at the age of 98 on October 25, 1985 in Geneva.

Works

  • with Wendy K. Swan: The memoir of Tina Keller-Jenny. A Lifelong Confrontation with the Psychology of C. G. Jung. Spring Journal Books, New Orleans 2009, ISBN 978-18-826-7085-7 , OCLC 779060366 .
  • [notice biographique, correspondance]. s. n., s. I. , 1933-1945, OCLC 716739683 .
  • From my memories of C. G. Jung. Bircher Benner, Erlenbach 1980.
  • To the psyche of women. Classen, Zurich 1955.
  • The yes to yourself. Bircher Benner, Erlenbach 1980.

literature

  • Marianne Jehle-Wildberger: C. G. Jung and Adolf Keller. About theology and psychology. Letters and Conversations. Theological Publishing House, Zurich 2014, ISBN 978-3-290-17770-6 , OCLC 992952828 .
  • Sonu Shamdasani: Introduction to Jungian Psychology. Princeton University Press, Princeton 2012.
  • Swiss Medical Yearbook. Schwabe, Basel 1980.

Individual evidence

  1. Keller, Swan: The Memoir of Tina Keller-Jenny. 2009.
  2. Wendy K. Swan: C. G. Jung and Tina Keller: A Study of Active Imagination . San Francisco, California 2005 ( wikispaces.com [PDF; 3.3 MB ] Diss. The Faculty of Saybrook Graduate School and Research Center).
  3. C. G. Jung: Memories, Dreams, Thoughts . Recorded and edited by Aniela Jaffé. Rascher Verlag, Zurich 1962, ISBN 978-3-530-40734-1 , p. 213 ( Google Books in Google Book Search [accessed September 28, 2017]).
  4. ^ Jehle-Wildberger: CG Jung and Adolf Keller. 2014, pp. 65–73 ( limited preview in Google Book Search).
  5. Patrizia Pallaro: Authentic Movement: Moving the body, moving the Self, Being Moved: A Collection of Essays . tape 2 . Jessica Kingsley Publishers, London 2007, ISBN 1-84642-586-7 ( limited preview in Google Book Search [accessed September 28, 2017]).
  6. Tina Keller-Jenny obituary . In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . No. 250 , October 28, 1985, pp. 41 .
  7. ^ The memoir of Tina Keller-Jenny at Goodreads.
  8. ^ CG Jung: Introduction to Jungian Psychology: Notes of the Seminar on Analytical Psychology Given in 1925 . Princeton University Press, Princeton 2011, ISBN 0-691-15205-5 ( limited preview in Google Book Search [accessed September 28, 2017]).
  9. Swiss Medical Yearbook . Schwabe, Basel 1980 ( limited preview in Google Book Search [accessed September 28, 2017]).