Edward F. Edinger

Edward F. Edinger (December 13, 1922, in Cedar Rapids, Iowa – July 17, 1998, in Los Angeles, California) was a medical psychiatrist, Jungian analyst and American writer.

Edward F. Edinger Jr. was born on December 13, 1922, in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, earning his Bachelor of Arts in chemistry at Indiana University Bloomington and his Doctor of Medicine at Yale School of Medicine in 1946. In November 1947, as a first lieutenant, he started a four-week Medical Field Service School at the Brooke Army Medical Center, Fort Sam Houston, Texas. He became a military doctor in the United States Army Medical Corps and was in Panama. In New York in 1951, he began his analysis with Mary Esther Harding, who had been associated with C. G. Jung.

Edinger was a psychiatrist supervisor at Rockland State Hospital in Orangeburg, New York, and later founder member of the C.G. Jung Foundation in Manhattan and the CG Jung Institute in New York. He was president of the institute from 1968 until 1979, when he moved to Los Angeles. There he continued his practice for 19 years, becoming senior analyst at the CG Jung Institute of Los Angeles.

He died on July 17, 1998, at his home in Los Angeles at age 75, according to family members due to bladder cancer. A decade later a collection of essays on his work was published: An American Jungian: essays in honor of Edward F. Edinger.

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References

  1. ↑ "Four Lieutenants At Medical Center", The Bedford Daily Times-Mail, Bedford, Indiana, volume LVI, number 113, November 5, 1947, page 12. (subscription required)
  2. ↑ "Miss McCarthy Betrothed To Dr. Edinger", The Bedford Daily Times-Mail, Bedford, Indiana, volume LVIII, number 248, May 29, 1950, page 4. (subscription required)
  3. ↑ Ann Walker (2010) Review: An American Jungian, essays in honor of Edward F. Edinger, Psychological Perspectives 53: 245 to 254