DEPTH PSYCHOLOGY MASTER'S PROGRAM

 

SONOMA STATE UNIVERSITY

   

 

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Mary Gomes, Ph.D., is a Professor of Psychology at SSU. She is the coeditor of Ecopsychology: Restoring the earth, healing the mind, as well as a consulting editor of the journal ReVision. Her interests center around ecopsychology, ritual, shamanism, and cross-cultural earth-based practices.

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Myrtle Heery, Ph.D., M.F.T., is a psychologist who utilizes humanistic and existential approaches in her work as a therapist, supervisor, and author. She is the Director of the International Institute for Humanistic Studies, and maintains an active teaching exchange program with therapists in Saint Petersburg, Russia. She teaches internationally on in-depth inquiry for therapists, and on group process. She has published numerous articles on inner voice experiences and on topics in humanistic and existential psychology.

Jurgen W. Kremer, Ph.D., Diplompsychologe, is an Executive Editor of ReVision, and author of Towards a person-centered resolution of intercultural conflicts. He is former Dean of Faculty and Vice President of Academic Affairs, Saybrook Institute; Academic Dean, Integral Studies Program, East-West Psychology Program, California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS); and Co-Director of the Ph.D. program for Traditional Knowledge, CIIS. He has edited ReVision special issues on Peace and Identity; Paradigmatic Challenges; Culture and Ways of Knowing; Indigenous Science; Trance and Healing; and Transformative Learning.

 

Laurel McCabe, Ph.D., is Chair of the Psychology Department at SSU, and Coordinator of the Depth Psychology Master’s Program. Her interests include psychological initiation, depth feminine and masculine, alchemy and transformation, and spirituality in modern life. She has expertise in women’s development and psychological growth in adulthood.

 

Maureen Murdock, M.A., M.F.T., is an author and psychotherapist. She has been core faculty in the M.A. Counseling Psychology program at Pacifica Graduate Institute, as well as the UCLA Extension Writers' Program. She is the author of Unreliable truth; The heroine's journey: Women's quest for wholeness; The hero's daughter; Father's daughters: Transforming the father-daughter relationship; as well as other books. She has published numerous articles on myth, women's development, and memoir.

 

Susan Stewart, Ph.D., M.F.T., is a Professor of Psychology at SSU and a psychotherapist. Her interests center around creativity, creative expression, and the soul.

 

Jeremy Taylor, D.Min., is an innovator and international teacher of group process in dream work, and the author of The living labyrinth; Where people fly and water runs uphil; and Dreamwork. He blends the values of spirituality with an active social conscience and a Jungian perspective. Jeremy is a Unitarian-Universalist minister and is the director of the Marin Institute for Projective Dream Work, as well as co-founder and past president of the Association for the Study of Dreams.

   
   

Janet Adler, M.S., Ph.D., is a practitioner and teacher of authentic movement locally and internationally. With a doctorate in Mystical Studies, she has explored mystical experience as well as the conscious body. She is the author of Offering from the conscious body: The discipline of authentic movement and Arching backwards: The mystical initiation of a contemporary woman. She has also produced two films on authentic movement, Still looking, and Looking for me, which documents her work with autistic children.

   

Greg Bogart, Ph.D., M.F.T., is a psychotherapist and core faculty member in the Department of Counseling Psychology at John F. Kennedy University. He is the author of The nine stages of spiritual apprenticeship: Understanding the student-teacher relationship, and Finding your life's calling: Spiritual dimensions of vocational choice, as well as numerous articles on dreamwork, spiritual practice, and clinical psychology. He is currently working on a book on therapeutic dreamwork.

 

Marsha Connell, M. A., is a multimedia artist and teacher whose working methods bridge traditional studio practice and expressive arts. An adjunct instructor at Santa Rosa Junior College, she has also won several California Arts Council Artist-in-Residence grants and is a Fellow of the California Arts Project. She is currently working on a book bringing together her Dream Vessels collages and poetry, and has published in Moving Journal. Her collages and plein air landscape paintings responding to spirit of place have been exhibited in many regional and international venues and publications and are in over 300 public and private collections.

 

Maria Hess, Ph.D., M.F.T., is a Lecturer in Psychology at SSU and a psychotherapist whose expertise is in teaching as transformation, and Buddhism and psychology. She is the recipient of SSU's Distinguished Teaching Award in 2003.

   

Dianne Jenett, Ph.D., is a researcher and women's spirituality community organizer whose scholarship is centered in rituals in South India, where she spends each spring doing research and participating in community celebrations for the Goddess. She has written on and documented the sacred Pongala ritual for women in Kerala, South India. She is also the co-author of a spiritually-based depth inquiry method known as organic inquiry. Her personal and research interests are psychological and collaborative learning processes, cross-cultural experiences, and qualitative research methods that facilitate personal and collective transformation. Dianne also leads educational trips to India.

   

Stephen Manning, Ph.D., M.F.T., is a psychotherapist and Executive Director of the C. G. Jung Institute of San Francisco. His interests include theoretical perspectives on Jungian psychology and psychopathology.

 

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