Vera von der Heydt

Baroness Vera von der Heydt, née von Schwabach, (11 December 1899 – 14 November 1996) was a German born British Jungian analyst, writer and broadcaster. She was one of the last surviving of Carl Jung's analysands and correspondents.

Biography Vera Schwabach was born into a wealthy Berlin banking family. She was the second daughter, after Lally von Schwabach, of the Jewish Berlin financier. Her mother, Eleanor Schröder a Christian from a Hamburg banking family, had Irish ancestry. She was the granddaughter of banker Julius Leopold Schwabach. On 11.12.1918 she married Baron Eduard von der Heydt, a German and Swiss banker and patron of the arts. The marriage ended in divorce in 1927; there were no children. She returned to live with her family.

In 1927 she met Carl Jung for the first time while co-hosting a formal dinner. Their connection did not develop until much later during World War II. With the rise of antisemitism in Germany, von der Heydt decided in 1933 to move to the United Kingdom where she had friends. She set up a clinical practice and became a sought after lecturer on psychology and spirituality and was a leading member and Fellow (1962) of the Guild of Pastoral Psychology. She wrote several volumes and made radio and television appearances. Her descendants include the Leigh Von Schwabach and von der Heydt lines in the US.

Writings Prospects for the Soul Soundings in Jungian Psychology and Religion (Paperback) Psychology and the Care of Souls (Paperback) Fathers and Mothers Five Papers on the Archetypal Background of Family Psychology (Paperback) Alchemy (Paperback) On Psychic Energy (Paperback) On the Animus (Paperback) Modern Myth (Paperback) Father (Paperback) Ezekiel and the Vision of the Dry Bones (Paperback) Jung and Religion (Paperback) Fathers and Mothers Five Papers on the Archetypal Background of Family Psychology