The Foundation was established in 2003 to support the work of Sonu Shamdasani, a London-based historian, in his then ongoing work of preparing Jung's Red Book for publication.
Sonu Shamdasani, author, editor, and Reader at the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at University College London
(With Mikkel Borch-Jacobsen) Le Dossier Freud. Enquête sur l'histoire de la psychanalyse (Paris: Les empêcheurs de penser en rond/Le Seuil, 2006).
In her celebrated biography of Jung, Deirdre Bair states that Carl Gustav Jung was also influenced by George Mead, himself owning at least eighteen of Mead's books (Bair, 2003, p. 297), but Sonu Shamdasani, 2005, states otherwise, at p. 100, fn 316.