The author of this website, Bernard Butler is a Medical Doctor working in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. I have had over twenty years experience in medicine since graduation, much of it in general practice, before deciding to work full-time in analytical psychology. (We don't call it psychoanalysis: that is a Freudian term, and while we incorporate Freud's theories, with reservations, we do feel that it is impossible to overlook the effects of the collective unconscious in health and disease.)

If you have read much of what is written here, you will by now have a fairly good idea of my approach. Please note that I can and do prescribe appropriate medication for my patients when necessary, but that is up to the patient, and often by taking Jung's perspective, little or no medication is required.

The aim of this website is to introduce people to Jung's main discoveries and concepts. Obviously this has required simplification. Should any reader wish to investigate further, please feel free to go to my other website, called

Pagan Queen

which contains the draft for a PhD thesis and thus elucidates many topics in more detail.

Should you have any queries, comments or criticisms, you are most welcome to express them.

Please do NOT send email attachments under any circumstances. They will be deleted immediately, and never opened.

Clearly this sort of therapy cannot be carried out by correspondence, but if you would like advice, I would be happy to point you in the right direction, either by recommending appropriate reading, or suggesting a Jungian analyst near where you live. If you live in the Melbourne area and would like to come and see me personally, please call.
Phone: (03) 9525 1862.
I would be delighted to hear from you. Being a medical practitioner, my services attract Medicare Rebates, which substantially lightens the financial burden on my patients.

But whatever you do, hopefully this site has given you some idea of the road ahead, and some clues about how to tackle the individuation process, because, in the final analysis (pardon the pun?!) it?s the greatest adventure we will ever have.

"We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time." [T.S. Eliot: Little Gidding.]

Best wishes for your own adventure, and may you arrive safely home at the end of your journey.