The Pinniger Clinic

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Background information

You will find below some information about Margaret Pinniger after whom our clinic is named. Also some insight into the artwork you see here at the top of our page and which hangs in our premises. For the curious...

Margaret Pinniger, a friend of Edna Walling, the famous garden designer, lived in the Blue Mountains west of Sydney, and developed a deep interest in Jungian Psychology and Buddhist meditation. Her bequest, to be used to further psychotherapy in Australia, is commemorated in this Clinic's name and practice.

The Pinniger Clinic recognizes the importance of spiritual dimensions, the creative arts in therapy and complementary medicine approaches.

The picture Puntu Tjarpanytja (Pintubi for "the deepest possible healing penetration") was painted by Andrew Spencer Jalpajari and his family, at Walungurru, for Leon and his associates.

It depicts the Tanami Medicine Serpent's entry into his final resting place at Nyinmi, one of the most powerful "Medicine sites" in Indigenous Australia.

It was given to us as a blessing from Indigenous Australia, with the instructions - "hang it up in your Clinic, put it on your business card, it will help make your patients better."

The Director, Dr Leon Petchkovsky is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry with U Q. He is the President of the CG Jung Institute and the Australian and New Zealand Society of Jungian Analysts. He visits remote Central Australian communities regularly.

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