Nestled away on the top floor of a five story brownstone on East 39th street in Manhattan is the Kristine Mann Library, a research library dedicated to the Swiss Psychiatrist-Psychologist Carl Gustav Jung.
Founded by the Analytical Psychology Club of New York in 1941, the KML is an important and publicly accessible resource and the oldest Jungian library in North America. The KML serves the members of the APC, the analysts in training at the C.G. Jung Institute of NY and other members of the local, national, and international Jungian community.
The Kristine Mann Library, is a research library and unique resource for the study of Analytical Psychology and the works of Carl Jung. The library collects and catalogs books, papers, journals, theses, dissertations, audio recordings, and films by and about Carl Jung and others in the field of Jungian Psychology. The library has a comprehensive collection of material on Analytical Psychology as well as on Eastern and Western religions, alchemy, mythology, mystical traditions, anthropology, the occult, the arts, symbolism, fairy tales, folktales, and dreams. The Kristine Mann Library carries out events, lectures and programming related to these areas and subjects.
In 1945, the library was named in honor of Dr. Kristine Mann, one of the first psychoanalysts in the United States and a founder of the APC of New York. The library, which included her bequest of over 400 books and papers, eventually moved to a pleasant suite in the Peter Cooper Hotel. In 1975, the library relocated to its current home at the C.G. Jung Center of New York on 39th Street, which also houses the C.G. Jung Foundation, their bookstore, the C.G. Jung Institute, the Analytical Psychology Club, ARAS (The Archive for Research in Archetypal Symbolism), and the New York Association for Analytical Psychology.
Become a Member of the Library
Borrowing privileges are available to members only. Membership is $55/year or $45/year for seniors, analysts in training, and analysts of the C.G. Jung Institute.
KML Staff
Matthew Carson, Head Librarian
Matthew is the Head Librarian at the Kristine Mann Library at the C.G. Jung Center in New York. He studied Anthropology with a specialization in comparative religion at Oxford and earned his MLS (Masters in Library Science) at Pratt Institute, New York. With more than 20 years’ of library and archives experience, he has worked at International Center of Photography, the Guggenheim and the National Book Foundation. Matthew has a wide knowledge of photography, art, poetry, film, and literature. He has worked in public libraries throughout New Jersey and also as a rare and antiquarian book dealer.
Formerly Head Librarian and Archivist at the International Center of Photography (ICP), he developed and processed the first-ever institutional archives of the ICP-founder Cornell Capa. Matthew was a co-curator of the book component of the ICP Triennial: A Different Kind of Order. He was also a co-organizer of Shashin a Japanese photography symposium and festival and is a co-founder 10x10photobooks.
Matthew has a keen interest in cinema, theater and the study of Romany culture. He shares his home with his son and two cats, many books and an ongoing collection of contemporary art.
Heidi Boyson, Research Librarian
Heidi Boyson, LMHC, MS, MA has worked at the C.G. Jung Center for six years. She is a licensed psychotherapist with specialties in play therapy, grief, mindfulness and couples work. Her current favorite sections of the library are gender studies, transpersonal, sandtray, dreams and trauma. Her favorite journal is Parabola. She loves to read (not surprisingly), go to museums, hike, travel and meditate.
Heidi has served in the capacity of Librarian in a variety of settings including a child welfare agency in Harlem and a public library in NJ. Perhaps most relevant is her family’s vast collection of children’s and illustrated books and artifacts that was eventually donated to the Dodd Archival Research Center at University of Connecticut in honor of her mother, Phyllis Hirsch Boyson. Her knowledge of literature, especially related to rare books, is a significant benefit to the library, as is her creativity and warmth. One of her favorite Jung quotes is:
“Naturally, the creative impulse is forever the maker of personality and uses that individual form, that distinction. Therefore it is absolutely necessary that, in the process of individuation, everybody should become aware of his creative instinct, no matter how small it is.”
— Nietzsche’s Zarathustra: Notes of the Seminar Given in 1937-1939, Vol 1 (November 6, 1935, p. 667)
KML Board of Trustees
The KML Board of Trustees comprises a combination of Jungian therapists, scholars, artists, and similarly avid Jung enthusiasts, all interested in preserving this unique archive of books and multimedia materials to delight and inform current and future generations.
Pamela M. Buckle PhD
Beth Darlington PhD
Farzad Mahootian PhD
Bob McCullough
Stephen Moskovitz
Board Chair: Jay Sherry PhD