About - USA India Jung Foundation

Mission Statement

The Mission of the USA India Jung Foundation is to foster Educational, Spiritual and Clinical exchange between the Citizens of United States and India to improve the Physical and Mental Health of its citizens. The guiding principles of this exchange is the exchange of ideas using the unique healing and spiritual traditions of India, the Allopathic Medical especially Mental Health principals in USA: both integrated in the context of Carl G. Jung’s principals of Analytical Psychology. The professionals who are experts in the India’s Healing traditions like Ayurveda and Yoga, in the Western treatment traditions like Cognitive Therapy, Analytical Psychology and especially experts who are concurrently also very familiar with Carl Jung’s Analytical Psychology Treatment and Training Methods; or open to it, would be supported in their efforts to train professionals in their host and guest countries to improve the physical and mental health of citizens in both countries, especially those who might otherwise not have access to mental health care and physical health care. The Foundation hopes to facilitate the training of professionals in both countries using these paradigms. Furthermore, it is anticipated that those training activities will be supported that may have improve access to this type of mental and physical health care to citizens of both countries. It will specifically focus on training and treatment programs in both countries that meet the above criteria. The Foundation hopes to further create a positive ripple effect of its initiatives by offering educational programs to interested lay individuals in both countries who may help with dissemination of such knowledge and help with setting up and supporting the treatment programs for the underserved. Upon the dissolution of this organization, assets shall be distributed for one or more exempt purposes within the meaning of section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code, or corresponding section of any future federal tax code, or shall be distributed to the federal government, or to a state or local government, for a public purpose. At the present time, it is the intent of this foundation that all its assets be distributed to the American Red Cross for relief activities in India. The asset distribution may be modified by the Board in future within the guidelines stated above.

Promoting Educational
and Clinical Activities

The Western world led by United States has made dramatic strides in Medical and Mental health care, prevention and treatment.

While the allopathic medicine can palliate the symptoms of many illnesses, the cause and the cure remain elusive. The East led by India offers the ancient wisdom and healing traditions that attend not only to the body and the mind but also the soul and the spiritual dimension of health, healing and wholeness. This compensates for the lopsidedness of the Western medical and mental health healing practices. However, for a long time, we were missing a bridge between these two frameworks to communicate and collaborate. Swiss Psychiatrist Carl Gustav Jung’s discoveries in Analytical Psychology finally offer a bridge and a common language between these two universes.

The USA India Jung Foundation will promote educational and clinical activities in India and USA based on the principals of Carl Jung's analytical psychology and Eastern spiritual and healing wisdom and traditions. It will foster clinical, medical, and educational exchange between professionals of the United States and India. These activities will include educational activities directed both to professional and lay organizations in both countries to promote mental health education and prevention activities based on principals of analytical psychology and Eastern Spirituality.

About the USA-INDIA
Jung Foundation

The Western world led by United States has made dramatic strides in Medical and Mental health care, prevention and treatment.

With the Rosetta stone of Carl Jung’s analytical psychology, we can translate the wisdom East and knowledge of the West available to public, patient and practitioners on both sides. This collaboration can expand our understanding to a higher level of consciousness, which can potentially benefit the rest us. The USA India Jung Foundation will promote educational and clinical activities in India and USA based on the principals of Carl Jung's analytical psychology and Eastern spiritual and healing wisdom and traditions. It will foster clinical, medical, and educational exchange between professionals of the United States and India. These activities will include educational activities directed both to professional and lay organizations in both countries to promote mental health education and prevention activities based on principals of analytical psychology and Eastern Spirituality.

History of the USA-INDIA
Jung Foundation

The founding member of the foundation, Ashok Bedi, M.D., is a psychiatrist, and a Jungian psychoanalyst who his medical schooling in India, his psychiatric training in Great Britain and his Jungian analytical training in Chicago, USA.

He now practices and teaches in Milwaukee. His experiences in both the East and the West convinced him of the value of integrating the two frames of references to optimize the understanding of the human psyche and optimizing the treatment of individuals struggling with medical and psychiatric problems, relationship tangles, complexes or hang ups and various maladies of the soul.

Synchronistically he was invited by the leadership of the International Association of Analytical Psychologists (www.iaap.org), the world’s parent organization of Jungian analysts to become the liaison person of the IAAP to take the lead in developing the Jungian training and treatment centers in India. Over the last several years, he has traveled to India annually to establish these centers with the support and guidance of the IAAP, the volunteer international faculty of Jungian analysts and Indian mental health professionals at various centers in India. Presently, there are two regional Jungian centers in India under the auspices of the IAAP including centers at Ahmedabad and Bangalore. Kusum Dhar Prabhu is the president of the All India Association of Analytical Psychologists and has devoted her time, energy and talents at the Indian end of the spectrum. The plan of the USA India Jung Foundation is to support the initiatives of the IAAP in India. But this is the tip of the iceberg and many possibilities of collaboration between the Jungian community and Indian matrix exist to enrich both ends of the spectrum in a shared creative endeavor. The foundation will explore and support such initiatives. The founding member of the foundation Ashok Bedi is grateful for the support of Siddhartha Bedi and Usha Bedi, who have graciously and generously volunteered their time, talent and energies to support the formation and functioning of the USA India Jung foundation.

Board of Directors

Ashok Bedi, M.D.

1220 Dewey Avenue
Wauwatosa, WI 53213
Phone: (414) 454-6610

Ashok Bedi, M.D. is a Jungian psychoanalyst and a board-certified psychiatrist. He is a member of the Royal College of psychiatrists of Great Britain, a diplomat in Psychological Medicine at the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of England, a Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association. He is a Clinical Professor in Psychiatry at the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee and a training analyst at the Carl G. Jung Institute of Chicago. His books include In the Eye of the Storm- Staying Centered in Personal and Collective Crisis, The Spiritual Paradox of Addiction, Crossing the Healing Zone , Awaken the Slumbering Goddess: The Latent Code of the Hindu Goddess Archetypes, Retire Your Family Karma: Decode Your Family Pattern and Find Your Soul Path and Path to the Soul. He is the liaison for the IAAP for developing Jungian training programs in India and travels annually to India to teach, train the consult with the Jungian Developing groups at several centers in India including Ahmedabad and Mumbai. He leads the annual “A Jungian Encounter with the Soul of India” study group to several centers in India under the auspices of the New York Jung Foundation and the Carl Jung Institute of Chicago. His publications and upcoming programs may be previewed at www.pathtothesoul.com

Usha A. Bedi

Usha Bedi is a well known chef and restaurateur in the Milwaukee area. Her event planning and fundraising efforts are indispensible to the UIJF. She coordinates all activities of the UIJF, acts as a cultural liason, and is the treasurer. She also coodinates UIJF activities abroad, a task well suited for a person who has lived on four continents. Usha honed her unique Indian contemporary cuisine and hospitality by blending her ayurvedic culinary principles with her experience of cooking in Africa, India, Great Britain and United States. She is presently publishing a cookbook. She continues to conduct cooking classes in Milwaukee and leads culinary tours to India.

Dinshah Dhun Gagrat, MD

Psychiatric Consultants And Therapists
1220 Dewey Ave Ste 207, Wauwatosa,
WI, 53213 (414) 454-6731

Dinshah D. Gagrat, MD, is Medical Director of Adult Services at Milwaukee Psychiatric Hospital. He also directs the hospital's Eating Disorder Program. Dr. Gagrat earned his medical degree from the Seth GS Medical School in Bombay, India, and completed his residency at the Medical College of Wisconsin. His special interests include eating disorders, mood disorders and psychopharmacology. He is a member of the Wisconsin and American Psychiatric Associations and was past president of the American Association of Physicians from India. He has been board certified since 1979.

Mary Dougherty, MFA, ATR, NCPsyA

53 W. Jackson Blvd. Suite 438 Chicago, IL 60604 Phone: 773.525.2697

Mary Dougherty, MFA, ATR, NCPsyA, is a Jungian psychoanalyst and art psychotherapist in private practice in Chicago. She is former President, Director of Training, and chair of the Program Committee of the Jung Institute of Chicago, former President of Chicago Society of Jungian Analysts, and served for eight years on the Executive Committee of the Council of North American Societies of Jungian Analysts. She is contributing editor to the Journal of Jungian Theory and Practice and has numerous publications in Analytical Psychology. She lectures on the clinical implications of gender, the use of active imagination, and on the impact of Jung’s thought upon creative development and artistic production.

As a printmaker and performance artist she exhibited nationally and internationally, with venues including The George Eastman House, NY; Franklin Furnace, NYC; University of Chicago; Museo Contemporaneo, Sao Paolo. In 2001, she was awarded the ‘Lifetime Achievement in the Arts” award by the Chicago Women’s Caucus for the Arts.

Shobha D. Gagrat, MD

Psychiatric Consultants & Therapists 1220 Dewey Ave Ste 207, Wauwatosa, WI, 53213 (414) 454-6731

Dr. Gagrat works in Wauwatosa, WI and 2 other locations and specializes in Neurology and Psychiatry. Dr. Gagrat is affiliated with Aurora Psychiatric Hospital.

Robert “BJ” Jakala, PhD

53 W. Jackson Blvd. Suite 438 Chicago, IL 60604 773.525.2697

is a Depth Psychologist, Educator, Writer, and Photographer. He is a graduate of Pacifica Graduate Institute in Carpinteria, CA. He is also a Registered Nurse who worked at Linda and Stewart Neuropsychiatric Hospital for thirty-three years. He was a Nursing Supervisor for seventeen years and lead Group Psychotherapy on the Adult Service for ten years. He has taught the First Year Nurse Residents Self-Care and Stress Management at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center for over twelve years. He is the former Assistant Director of the Men’s Center of Los Angeles for 5 years. He retired from thirty years of Private Practice in Woodland Hills, CA in November. 2017.

Dr. Jakala promotes the idea of transformation and change as a function of image and language in patients, as well as clinicians. He teaches the rewards of deep listening to the images created by language and the value of an image’s experience before words emerge. He aligns with Carl Jung’s ideas regarding a universal consciousness that is often hidden beneath the surface of our ego consciousness. He encourages clinicians to appreciate the collective in order to assist clients become more of themselves.

About Us

Mission Statement

Promoting Educational
and Clinical Activities

The Western world led by United States has made dramatic strides in Medical and Mental health care, prevention and treatment.

About the USA-INDIA
Jung Foundation

The Western world led by United States has made dramatic strides in Medical and Mental health care, prevention and treatment.

History of the USA-INDIA
Jung Foundation

The founding member of the foundation, Ashok Bedi, M.D., is a psychiatrist, and a Jungian psychoanalyst who his medical schooling in India, his psychiatric training in Great Britain and his Jungian analytical training in Chicago, USA.