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Starting in 1917, C.G. Jung encouraged his patients to draw or paint their dreams and fantasies. The imaginative act, the elaboration of images, the understanding of pictures as symbols, as well as the therapeutic effect of working with imagery, the use of symbolic design to eliminate splits in the psyche - all of this constitutes the very core of Jungian therapy and theory. In his "Definitions" Jung writes: "For me fantasy as an imaginative activity is simply the immediate expression of psychic vital activity, psychic energy which is only given to consciousness in form of imagery or contents." (Collected Works 6, ¶722).Jocade Jacobi, one of Jung's closest collaborators, who also worked intensively with pictures, collected some 4,500 pictures by patients of C.?G. Jung, which were painted between 1917 and 1955. The Archive also contains about 6,000 works from Jolande Jacobi's own practice, as well as works by the patients of other first generation analysts.The Picture Archive is often sought out by people interested in the creative work of patients and active imagination, the method C.?G. Jung developed and applied as a form of therapy working with inner imagery. -based on the Preface by Verena KastThis volume, consisting of essays and thematic catalogues of images from the Picture Archive, is being published in English in 2023, coinciding with the seventy-fifth anniversary of the founding of the C.G. Jung Institute in Zürich. It contains 304 color illustrations, primarily full-page photographs of the creations of patients in analysis. The publication of this volume is supported by generous donation in honor of Ruth Ammann.