Career
She is most well known for her association with Carl Gustav Jung whom she joined in 1929 in Zurich and remained so until her death. He encouraged the younger von Franz to live with her, stating that "the real reason you should live together is that your chief interest will be analysis and analysts should not live alone." They became lifelong friends. She wrote a biography of Jung entitled Jung, His Life and Work: A Biographical Memoir.
She also practised as psychotherapist and served as lecturer at the C.G. Jung Institute.
Her major works are:
The Animus: The Spirit of Inner Truth in Women, Volume 1"
The Animus: The Spirit of Inner Truth in Women, Volume 2"
"The Archetypal Symbolism of Animals
Encounters with the Soul
Jung, His Life and Work: A Biographical Memoir
Striving Toward Wholeness.