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Ruth Ammann

Ruth Ammann is a native of Zurich, a Jungian analyst in that city, and a practicing architect. She is a graduate of the C. G. Jung Institute in Kusnacht, where she is now a lecturer and training analyst. She studied with Dora Kalff, the pioneer of therapeutic sandplay, and is a member of the international Society for Sandplay Therapy. She is the author of Healing and Transformation in Sandplay – Creative Processes Become Visible, and The House in Dreams, forthcoming in English.

Ruth Ammann Events with Oregon Friends of Jung

The Verdant Ones: Figures of Green Men and Green Women as They Appear in Folklore, Mythology, Fairytales, and Clinical Work (September 23, 1995)
The Potential for Self-Regulation of the Psyche as It Shows in Dreams, Pictures and Sandplay (September 20, 1995)
Introduction to Sandplay: the Transcendent Function in Pictures of a Woman and Boy (September 19, 1992)
Seasons of the Garden (September 18, 1992)
Symbolism of the House (September 16, 1992)
The Relationship Between Psychology and Architecture: The Interaction Between the Built Outer World and the Humane Inner World (March 21, 1998)

“The psychological rule says that when an inner situation is not made conscious, it happens outside, as fate. That is to say, when the individual remains undivided and does not become conscious of his inner opposite, the world must perforce act out the conflict and be torn into opposing halves.”

Collected Works, Vol 9 ii, para 126