CEO Psingular · Leadership
Clinical Psychologist · Jungian Analyst
Training in Neuroscience at the Universidade de Santiago de Compostela
Co-founder and CEO of the Jungian Clinical Institute (2022–2026)
About
João Ereiras Vedor is a clinical psychologist and Jungian analyst. Co-founder of Psingular, he is responsible for the project’s strategic vision and maintains a regular clinical practice — focused particularly on Jungian analysis and analytical psychotherapy with adults.
His training spans two traditions rarely brought together in a single professional: Jung’s depth psychology, with its attention to symbol, dream and the archetypal dimension, and contemporary neuroscience, which he pursues through advanced training at the Universidade de Santiago de Compostela.
The unconscious is not a poetic metaphor. It is a neurodynamic reality — and clinical work that ignores it loses as much as the neuroscience that reduces it. João Ereiras Vedor
He is the author of academic publications in international peer-reviewed journals, including BioSystems (Elsevier) and Theory & Psychology (SAGE), in which he brings Jungian analytical psychology into dialogue with neuroscience and Code Biology — an approach that understands archetypes as neurodynamic patterns and dreams as a coded language.
He also created Jungcast, a Portuguese-language podcast devoted to bringing Jungian thought to a wider audience.
Education
Master’s degree in Neuroscience
Universidade de Santiago de Compostela · Integrated programme with direct access to the PhD
Advanced Training in Analytical Psychology
International Academy of Analytical Psychology
Master’s degree in Clinical and Health Psychology
Universidade Católica Portuguesa
Bachelor’s degree in Psychology
Universidade Católica Portuguesa
Professional Licence
Ordem dos Psicólogos Portugueses (Order of Portuguese Psychologists) · No. 24142
Areas of expertise
"Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes."Carl Gustav Jung
Research
Working Paper
Conference
Papers
Beyond the clinic
Academic research
BioSystems · Elsevier · 2023
A psychobiological approach. A rereading of Jung’s theory of archetypes in the light of contemporary neuroscience and evolutionary biology — proposing an empirical grounding for traditionally speculative concepts.
Read paper →BioSystems · Elsevier · 2025
Bringing dreams together with the language of biological codes. Dream formation is treated as an adaptive coding system — not an epiphenomenon — opening the way to a neurodynamics of dreaming.
Read paper →Theory & Psychology · SAGE · 2026
How Organic Codes Create Mind. An extension of Marcello Barbieri’s Code Biology to the domain of mind — proposing a conceptual framework in which psychological processes emerge from coded semiotic operations.
Read paper →Cultural contributions
Documentary · Sabujo Filmes · Directed by Lucas Costanzi
A documentary bringing together analytical psychology, neuroscience and cinema — a journey into the interior of the mind, produced by Sabujo Filmes with the support of the Centro Algoritmi at the Universidade do Minho. Featured as a clinical contributor.
Press and public engagement
Clinical areas
Jungian Analysis
For deep processes of individuation. Work with dreams, symbols and the unconscious dimension of experience. Typical duration: 2–5 years.
Learn more →Adults
Psychodynamic work with adults. For focused concerns or for sustained reflective work, in a less analytical format.
Learn more →Leadership
For leaders and founders seeking a space of their own for thinking — connected to their role and responsibility.
Learn more →The initial consultation is an opportunity to get to know each other — with no commitment to continue. To see whether it makes sense for us to work together.