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Core Faculty
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Linda Cunningham (Ph.D., California Institute of Integral Studies, M.F.T.) is the author of Relational Sandplay Therapy and many articles in the Journal of Sandplay Therapy on the topic of the clinical relationship in sandplay. She gives trainings on the clinical relationship and the therapist’s use of self throughout the bay area in both graduate and postgraduate settings, and is adjunct faculty at The California Institute of Integral Studies. She is a psychotherapist in private practice in San Francisco and Petaluma and is the former Interim Coordinator of the Depth Psychology M.A. program. E-mail Website |
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Mary Gomes (Ph.D., Stanford University) is a Professor of Psychology at Sonoma State University. 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. E-mail |
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Myrtle Heery (Ph.D., California Institute of Integral Studies, M.F.T.) is a psychotherapist 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. E-mail |
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Jurgen W. Kremer (Ph.D., University of Hamburg) 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. E-mail Website |
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Laurel McCabe (Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley) is Professor of Psychology and former Chair of the Psychology Department at Sonoma State University, as well as the founder 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. She is on sabbatical in the spring of 2009. E-mail Website |
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Liza Ravitz (Ph.D., DePaul University) is a Jungian analyst and clinical-child psychologist with psychotherapy practices in San Francisco and Petaluma. She teaches at the C.G. Jung Institute in San Francisco and in the Department of Psychiatry's Child and Adult Outpatient Clinic at California Pacific Medical Center, and conducts consultation groups for therapists and presents workshops and trainings throughout the Bay Area. She is a teaching member of the International Society of Sandplay Therapists. E-mail |
Seminar Faculty
| Jeremiah Abrams (M.S.W, L.C.S.W.) is a psychotherapist, author, and the founder of the Mt. Vision Institute, a Marin County teaching and training center. He is the author of Meeting the Shadow: The Hidden Power of the Dark Side of Human Nature; The Shadow in America: Reclaiming the Soul of a Nation; and Reclaiming the Inner Child; and the creator of a CD-audio-music series, The Dreamtime Journey: the Path of Direct Experience, a Shamanic Inner Journey. He conducts dreamtime workshops and trainings, leads international sacred sites travel programs, and teaches and consults internationally. |
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John Beebe (M.D., University of Chicago) is a Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and an analyst member of the C. G. Jung Institute of San Francisco. He founded The San Francisco Jung Institute Library Journal, now published as Jung Journal: Culture and Psyche, and was the first co-editor from the United States of The Journal of Analytical Psychology. He is the author of Integrity in Depth; co-author of Psychiatric Treatment: Crisis Clinic and Consultation and The Presence of the Feminine in Film; editor of C. G. Jung's Aspects of the Masculine and Terror, Violence and the Impulse to Destroy; and author of numerous articles in Jungian books and journals. |
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Greg Bogart (Ph.D., California Institute of Integral Studies, M.F.T.) is a marriage and family therapist and a lecturer at Sonoma State University and California Institute of Integral Studies. He is the author of Dreamwork and Self-Healing: Unfolding the Symbols of the Unconscious, and numerous articles on dreamwork, spiritual practice, and clinical psychology in Journal of Transpersonal Psychology, American Journal of Psychotherapy, Journal of Humanistic Psychology, California Therapist, and Yoga Journal. He is in private practice in the East Bay. |
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Allan Chinen (M.D., Stanford University) is a psychiatrist in private practice in San Francisco, Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the University of California, San Francisco, and Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association. He is the author of numerous books on psychological development, including In the Ever After, Once Upon a Midlife, Beyond the Hero, Waking the World, and coeditor of the Textbook of Transpersonal Psychiatry and Psychology. |
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Rick Hanson (Ph.D., Wright Institute) is a psychologist, author and teacher in contemplative neuroscience. He is the founder of the Wellspring Institute for Neuroscience and Contemplative Wisdom, edits the Wise Brain Bulletin, and is the author of the forthcoming Buddha's Brain: Creating Neural Pathways to Happiness, Love and Wisdom. He leads an ongoing meditation group and teaches at the California Institute of Integral Studies, Spirit Rock, Sati Center, and other organizations. |
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Maria Hess (Ph.D., California Institute of Integral Studies, M.F.T.) is a depth-oriented psychotherapist, supervisor, and community educator in private practice in Sebastopol. She is an Associate Professor of Psychology at Sonoma State University with interests in transformational teaching, therapist training, and Tibetan Buddhist studies. She is the 2003 recipient of Sonoma State´s Distinguished Teaching Award. |
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Dianne Jenett (Ph.D., California Institute of Integral Studies) 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. She is core faculty of the Women's Spirituality program at the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology. |
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Kathy Kain (M.Ed., Western Institute for Social Research) is the Director of Training and Education for the Foundation for Human Enrichment and a senior trainer in the Somatic Experiencing training program. She is an adjunct faculty member of the Santa Barbara Graduate Institute; the developer of the Touch Skills Training for Psychotherapists; and a former senior trainer in the Somatic Psychotherapy training program in Sydney, Australia. The co-author of Ortho-Bionomy; A Practical Manual, she teaches internationally and maintains a private practice in Albany, California. |
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Malgorzata (Margaret) Kruszewska (M.A., New College) is adjunct faculty in Humanites and Religious Studies at Santa Rosa Junior College. Her publications include essays and chapters on embodied spiritual practices, yogic traditions, the Black Madonna of her native Poland, Egyptian goddesses, and feminist research methodologies. As a playwright and poet, her plays Daddy Meets Durga, MarX' Daughter, and MotherGhost have been produced in New York and Los Angeles. |
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Alan Kubler (Ph.D., Center for Psychological Studies, M.F.T.) is an Associate Professor at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco and is on the faculty at the Wright Institute in Berkeley. He is editor of fort da, the journal of the Northern California Society for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy. His interests include the development of a deeper dialogue between depth psychology, art, literature and poetry. He is a psychotherapist in private practice in Albany and San Francisco. |
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Maureen Murdock (M.A., Pacific Oaks College, 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. |
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Vicki Noble (M.A., New College) is co-creator of the Motherpeace round tarot; author of Motherpeace: A Way to the Goddess; Shakti Woman: Feeling Our Fire, Healing Our World; and most recently The Double Goddess: Women Sharing Power. She travels and teaches internationally, and is on the faculty of the Women's Spirituality program at the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology. |
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Virginia Beane Rutter (M.A., University of California, Berkeley) is an analyst member and on the teaching faculty of the C.G. Jung Institute in San Francisco. She is the author of Woman Changing Woman: Feminine Psychology Re-Conceived Through Myth and Experience; Celebrating Girls: Nurturing and Empowering Our Daughters; and Embracing Persephone: How To Be the Mother You Want for the Daughter You Cherish. Most recently she co-edited and contributed a chapter, “The Archetypal Paradox of Feminine Initiation in Analytic Work,” to Initiation: The Living Reality of An Archetype. She is in private practice in Mill Valley. |
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Meredith Sabini (Ph.D., California School of Professional Psychology) is a licensed psychologist and the founder of The Dream Institute of Northern California, a cultural center and continuing education provider in Berkeley. She is the editor of The Earth Has a Soul: Jung on Nature, Technology, and Modern Life, and author of numerous articles on depth psychology. She specializes in dream education for therapists and dream consultation for organizations and individuals. |
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Greg Sarris (Ph.D., Stanford University) holds the Endowed Chair in Native American studies at Sonoma State University. He is the author of many works of fiction and nonfiction, including the widely anthologized collection of essays, Keeping Slug Woman Alive: A Holistic Approach to American Indian Texts; Watermelon Nights; Mabel McKay: Weaving the Dream; The Woman Who Loved a Snake; and Grand Avenue, which was made into an HBO miniseries. He currently serves as chairman of his tribe, the Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria. |
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Jeremy Taylor (D.Min., University of Creation Spirituality) 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 Uphill; and Dreamwork. He blends the values of spirituality with an active social conscience and a Jungian perspective. He 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. |
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Jacqueline Thurston (M.A., Stanford University) is an artist, writer and Professor of Art at San Jose State University. Professor Thurston is twice the recipient of National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships and is a former Fulbright Scholar. Her work is in major public collections including the Library of Congress, SMOMA, the Carnegie Museum of Art and the Bibliotheque Nationale. She has an interest in the interface between art and psychology and has given many presentations on the nature of the creative process from an artist’s perspective. |
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Jane Zich (M.F.A., University of Iowa, Ph.D., Arizona State University) is a clinical psychologist, Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at University of California, San Francisco, and an artist. Her special interest is in the use of imagery and creative expression to deepen psychological growth and to illuminate psychological realities. She has received numerous awards in juried art shows for her mixed-media paintings, and has published articles on dialogues with the personal and collective unconscious as linked to her art. She is in private practice in San Francisco and Kentfield. |
Information Meeting
Come to a Depth Psychology MA Information Meeting on Saturday Dec 5, 1-3 p.m. in Stevenson Hall 3042.
Public Programs in Depth Psychology
Gareth Hill, MSW, Ph.D. speaks on Alchemy and a Model of the Self, Saturday Nov. 14, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the Cooperage on the Sonoma State campus.