Barbara Hannah was born in England. She is well known for her association with Carl Gustav Jung whom she joined in 1929 in ZurichBarbara Hannah The Mystical Experience Registry and remained so until his death.
Biography Hannah began analysis with Jung in 1929. She befriended Joseph L. Henderson the same year, and shared accommodation with him in Zurich.Joseph L. Henderson in Hannah's The Inner Journey – Lectures and Essays on Jungian Psychology (Inner City Books, 2000), p.144. In late 1974, she accepted Marion Woodman into analysis stating, "You are a parson's daughter; I am a parson's daughter...Jung told me that only a parson's child can handle a parson's child.'Marion Woodman in Hannah's The Inner Journey – Lectures and Essays on Jungian Psychology (Inner City Books, 2000), p.8 .
Hannah became a close friend of Swiss Jungian psychologist Marie-Louise von Franz, to whom she was introduced by Jung. He encouraged the younger von Franz to live with her, stating that "the real reason you should live together is that your chief interest will be analysis and analysts should not live alone."Dean L. Franz's portrait of Barbara Hannah in Hannah's The Cat, Dog and Horse Lectures (Chiron, 1992), p.18.
Hannah wrote a biography of Jung entitled Jung, His Life and Work: A Biographical Memoir. She also practised as a psychotherapist and served as lecturer at the C.G. Jung Institute.
Major works The Animus: The Spirit of Inner Truth in Women, Volume 1 The Animus: The Spirit of Inner Truth in Women, Volume 2 The Archetypal Symbolism of Animals Encounters with the Soul Jung, His Life and Work: A Biographical Memoir Striving Toward Wholeness
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