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| |  Welcome to the M.A./Ph.D. Depth Psychology Program faculty for 2008-2009. I am Mary Watkins, chair of the program, as well as coordinator of the Community and Ecological Fieldwork and Research. I am a clinical and developmental psychologist and was an early member of the archetypal/imaginal psychology movement. I have worked in a wide variety of clinical settings and with groups on issues of peace, diversity, social justice, reconciliation, and the envisioning of community and cultural transformation. I am the author of Waking Dreams, Invisible Guests: The Development of Imaginal Dialogues, co-author of Toward Psychologies of Liberation, and Talking with Young Children about Adoption, and co-editor of Psychology and the Promotion of Peace.
Areas of Interest: I am working at the interface of Euro-American depth psychologies and psychologies of liberation from Africa, Latin America, and Asia. My current fieldwork and research interests include psychocultural dynamics regarding immigration, processes of reconciliation and public conversation, and liberation arts.
Classes I’ll Teach: Psychologies of Liberation, Oral Traditions, Community/Ecological Fieldwork | | | |
| | | |  Jennifer Leigh Selig is former chair of the Depth Psychology program. She says, “I am a former high school dropout, meaning I am one of the teachers that No Child Left Behind left behind. After sixteen years of teaching high school English, psychology, and mythology, I left the field when I felt the soul squeezed out of it. To my B.A. in English and my M.A. in Multicultural Literature, I added a Ph.D. in Depth Psychology at Pacifica Graduate Institute in 2003, and joined the faculty in 2005. My books include Thinking Outside the Church: 110 Ways to Connect With Your Spiritual Nature and the forthcoming volume Reimagining Education: Essays on Retrieving the Soul of Learning which I co-edited with Dr. Dennis Slattery, a Mythological Studies professor who also teaches in our program.” Areas of Interest: Like many students and faculty who come to Pacifica, I have so many interests! But to narrow it down, I am particularly interested in depth psychology as it intersects with education, socio-political movements, spirituality, literature, research, and writing (and that’s a narrow list!). Classes She’ll Teach This Year: Dissertation Development, Foundations for Research in Depth Psychology, Group and Community Processes | | | |
| | | |  David Bona has been a professor at Pacifica Graduate Institute for the past twelve years. He has been a Core Faculty member in the Clinical Psychology Department, has served as Chair of the Depth MA/PhD Department and is presently a Core Faculty member in the Depth program. Prior to this, Dr. Bona served twenty-five years as a Franciscan Catholic priest in which capacity he was Chaplain at Vassar College and Pastor of a large parish in Connecticut. Dr. Bona has an MA in Divinity, an MA in Theology and an MA in Education. He is presently writing a book on the dreams of St. Francis of Assisi and the path of Individuation. Areas of Interest: Engaging the soul, the interface between spirituality, religion & psychology, the process of individuation and the study of dreams Classes He’ll Teach: Introduction to Depth Psychology, Dreamwork, Oral Traditions | | | |
| | | |  Alexandra Fidyk’s life and work has been deeply shaped by movement – growing up far-from-nowhere in northern Canada meant always traveling somewhere; living in Japan, Colombia, and Egypt; and, tracking Hermes who is at home in this world-of-the-road. Presently, she moves from a philosophy of education assistant professorship to Core Faculty and Research Coordinator in the Depth Psychology department at Pacifica. Most recently she was certified as a Jungian psychotherapist by the Jung Institute of Chicago. Areas of Interest: Interested in transdisciplinary studies, her work tends the realms of ontological splendor, the poetic, and the imaginal. Her writing most often addresses thoughts about silence, eros, identity, place, and ethics. Classes She’ll Teach: Jung II, Research Process, Dissertation Development, Participatory Research | | | |
| | | |  Edward Casey is Distinguished Visiting Faculty in the Depth Program at Pacifica. He is also Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at SUNY, Stony Brook, where he was chairperson of his department for ten years (1991-2001). He is the author of eight books, among them Spirit and Soul (2nd ed. 2001), Imagining (2nd ed. 2000), Remembering (2nd ed. 2000), and most recently The World at a Glance (2007). He is perhaps best known for his descriptions of the role of place in human experience; Getting Back into Place (1993) and The Fate of Place (1997) are the two major expressions of this research. He is currently writing The World on Edge.
Areas of Interest: Research and teaching interests: philosophical psychology (esp. the philosophical foundations of depth psychology); ecopsychology; phenomenology; hermeneutics; aesthetics; imagination; memory; contemporary French thought. Classes He’ll Teach: Ecopsychology, the Hermeneutic and Phenomenological Traditions, and Frontiers of Depth Psychology | | | |
| | | |  Maurice Stevens received his Ph.D. from the History of Consciousness Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz and works in the areas of American, ethnic, critical gender, and cultural studies. He is a professor at Ohio State University in Comparative Studies, and he teaches adjunct for us each spring quarter. He is particularly interested in the formation of identities in and through visual culture and performance, and in historical memory in relation to trauma theory, critical gender studies, critical race theory, psychoanalytic theory, and popular cultural performance. One of his books is titled Troubling Beginnings: Trans(per)forming African American History and Identity, and he’s currently working on a book in the area of trauma studies. Areas of Interest: Critical trauma theory, critical race & legal theory, critical psychoanalysis, visual culture, critical gender studies, narrative, historiography, ethnic and American studies, semiotics. Classes He’ll Teach: Individual and Collective Trauma, Frontiers of Liberation Psychology | | | |
| | | |  Barbara Esgalhado’s great loves are learning, reading, writing, teaching, raising her two daughters, mentoring, and art making. She earned her Ph.D. in Developmental Psychology at Columbia University, has taught at several universities, and has worked clinically and artistically with many interesting children and adults. She serves as Core Faculty and Associate Chair for the Depth Psychology program this year. Areas of Interest: Her interests include how creative and artistic practices deepen our understanding of ourselves, others and the world; expanding theory and research methodology to include the many dimensions of who we are and how we become those persons; and the ways in which immigration, transmigration, and acculturation shape the identities -- real and imaginary -- that we create for ourselves. Classes She’ll Teach: Freud 1, Research Process | | | |
| | | |  Thomas Elsner is a certified Jungian analyst who trained in Switzerland at the Center for Depth Psychology according to C.G. Jung and Marie-Louise von Franz. He is on the faculty of the C.G. Jung Study Center of Southern California and in private practice in Santa Barbara. He is an adjunct instructor who has contributed to five of Pacifica’s degree programs. Recently he founded the Santa Barbara Friends of Jung Society.
Areas of Interest: Thomas' interests include Jungian psychology, depth psychological approaches to literature, alchemy, and new cultural mythologies. Classes He’ll Teach: Alchemy and the Mystery Traditions | | | |
| | | |  Mady Schutzman is a writer, teacher, and theatre artist with an MA in sociocultural anthropology and a PhD in Performance Studies. She is a free lance practitioner and renowned scholar of the techniques of Theatre of the Oppressed (TO) and co-editor of Playing Boal: Theatre, Therapy, Activism (Routledge, 1994) and A Boal Companion: Dialogues on theatre and cultural politics, (Routledge 2006). Schutzman’s current research focuses on forms of resistance that rely upon the ambiguous and paradoxical strategies of comedy and trickery. She is currently Assistant Dean and full time faculty in the School of Critical Studies, California Institute of the Arts.
Statement of Interests: Mady’s interests include writing, theatre and social justice, ritual, non-oppositional forms of critique as encountered through trickster and clown, humor and jokes, and the intersection of political and spiritual agendas. Classes She’ll Teach: Theatre of the Oppressed (Group and Community Processes) | | | |
| | | |  Alan Kilpatrick is Professor of American Indian Studies at San Diego State University and an adjunct faculty member at Pacifica. He is an anthropologist who received his Ph.D. from UCLA where he was a student of Marija Gimbutas. As a scholar, he has won many academic awards such as a Bienecke Fellowship (Yale University), an Irvine Teaching Fellowship (Stanford University) and two Fulbrights. He is the author of The Night Has a Naked Soul: Witchcraft and Sorcery among the Western Cherokee and has conducted fieldwork on folk healing in Peru, Mexico, and Spain. Areas of Interest: Alan’s interests include literature (he is a professional playwright), folklore, traditional medicine and Shamanism. Classes He’ll Teach: Depth Psychology and Cultural Issues I (Jung and Shamanism) | | | |
| | | |  Linda Buzzell-Saltzman has been a psychotherapist for over 30 years, specializing in career and sustainable lifestyle issues. She is the founder of the International Association for Ecotherapy, the editor of Ecotherapy News and the co-editor (with Craig Chalquist, Ph.D.) of Ecotherapy: Healing with Nature in Mind (Sierra Club Books, 2009). A graduate of the Permaculture Design Course, she is a Fellow at For the Future, a local sustainability think tank, a Board member of Opus Archives and Research Center, and was one of the organizers of Sustainable Santa Barbara, a community relocalization and Earth Charter symposium held at Pacifica in October 2005. Areas of Interest: Linda's interests focus on the greening of psychology and psychotherapy, and she is also actively involved in helping individuals, families and communities make the psychological, ethical and practical transitions towards relocalized, sustainable living and respond positively and creatively to the challenges of climate disruption, environmental degradation, resource shortages and economic change. Classes She’ll Teach: Community/Ecological Fieldwork | | | |
| | | |  Glen Slater studied psychology and religious studies at the University of Sydney before coming to the United States in for doctoral work in clinical psychology in 1992. He has been a Core Faculty member at Pacifica since 1998, currently in the Mythological Studies department, but he’s a long-time contributor to the Depth Psychology program as well. He is the author of many articles in the area of depth psychology and culture, psyche and film and mythology. He edited and introduced volume three of James Hillman's Uniform Edition of writings, and the coeditor with Dennis Patrick Slattery of Varieties of Mythic Experience.
Areas of Interest: Glen's research interests include Jungian and Archetypal psychology, psychology and religion, technology and the psyche, and mythic patterns in contemporary culture. Classes He’ll Teach: Archetypal Psychology, Jungian Psychology I, and Post Jungian Traditions | | | |
| | | |  Jennifer Freed has been working in the field of psychology since 1976 and has specialized in families, couples, and adolescents. She is Co-Director of The Academy of Healing Arts and she is also Co-Director of Astrological Counseling Seminars. She has taught at Pacifica for over 18 years and brings a passion for including the body and JOY in the study of Depth Psychology. Her workbooks are available at www.indepthpress.com.
Areas of Interest: Sexuality, Creativity, Character, and Compassion. Classes She’ll Teach: Group and Community Processes (Council) | | | |
| | | |  Aaron Kipnis is author of Knights Without Armor and Angry Young Men; co-author of Gender War, Gender Peace and What Women and Men Really Want and a contributor to many anthologies and journals. In 2006 he produced an award winning feature length documentary film, Awakening, about women's poverty irradiation in Afghanistan and India. Aaron is a clinical psychologist and Core Faculty in the Counseling department at Pacifica, where he has taught for 11 years. Aaron has been an advisor to many organizations such as the Little Hoover Commission’s Task Force on Youth Crime and Violence, The Center for Psychology and Social Change, The California Youth Authority and The Harvard School of Education.
Areas of Interests: Aaron's interests include ecology, shamanism, Vedic and Buddhist studies, violence prevention and trauma treatment, youth at risk, gender issues, documentary film making, training psychologists,lLiberation psychology, writing and publishing, community building, the psychology of money, diversity issues and global dialogs. Classes He’ll Teach: Introduction to Scholarly Publications, Community/Ecological Fieldwork, and Phenomenology of Depth Psychological Cultural Work | | | |
| | | |  Barnaby B. Barratt is known as an original interdisciplinary thinker who has published across the fields of spirituality, philosophy, psychoanalysis, somatic psychology, and human sexuality. His books include: Psychic Reality and Psychoanalytic Knowing (1984); Psychoanalysis and the Postmodern Impulse (1993); The Way of the BodyPrayerPath (2004); Sexual Health and Erotic Freedom (2005); What is Tantric Practice? (2006); Liberating Eros (forthcoming); and The Emergence of Somatic Psychology and Bodymind Therapy (contracted by Palgrave Macmillan). He is currently Provost at Northcentral University, and past President of the American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors and Therapists. Statement of Interests: Barnaby’s research interests include the nature of healing practices, the interaction of fantasy and desire, and a variety of topics concerning the body and sexuality. Classes He’ll Teach: Post-Freudian Traditions | | | |
| | | |  Ginette Paris is a French Canadian psychologist, therapist, writer who is core faculty and a research coordinator in the Mythological Studies Program at Pacifica. She is an honorary member of the Jung Society of Montreal and a member of the International Association for Jungian Studies. She has presented numerous lectures and published many books in social and depth psychology, and she has been interviewed on television and radio about her insightful and sometimes controversial views on human experience and the soul.
Areas of Interests: Depth and archetypal psychology Classes She’ll Teach: Depth Psychology and the Mythic Tradition | | | |
| | | |  Dennis Patrick Slattery is a writer, teacher, poet and motorcycle rider. He is the author and/or co-editor of 13 books in the areas of spirituality, popular culture, literary theory and criticism, depth psychology, mythology and poetry. He teaches in both mythology and depth psychology. He also offers writing workshops and retreats on Riting One's Personal Myth to Jung groups across the country. His most recent book, co-edited with Depth faculty Jennifer Selig, is Reimagining Education: Essays on Reviving the Soul of Learning.
Areas of Interests: Writing as a mythological activity, literature, theory, depth psychology, mythology, cultural studies and the act of reading. Classes He’ll Teach: Literary and Poetic Imagination | | | |
| | | |  Betsy Perluss is a wilderness guide for the School of Lost Borders (www.schooloflostborders.com), a training center for wilderness rites of passage located in Big Pine, CA. Betsy is also a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and has worked in a variety of clinical, educational, and outdoor settings. Currently, she is Associate Professor of Counseling at California State University, Los Angeles, where she teaches graduate studies in marriage and family therapy.
Areas of Interests: Psyche and nature, wilderness rites of passage, Jungian psychotherapy, Council practice, expressive arts therapy, child psychotherapy Classes She’ll Teach: Ecopsychology II | | | |
| | | |  Radhule Weininger trained as a physician in West Germany and as a clinical psychologist in the United States. She has worked as a psychotherapist in private practice in Santa Barbara for the past 13 years, after practicing for 7 years in San Francisco and Berkley. She sees adults and adolescents with a variety of problems including depression and anxiety, especially in times of relationship crises and major life changes. She draws on an eclectic background, psychodynamic and Jungian. For 12 years Dr Weininger has worked as consultant, helping people wounded by religious in authority. She works with those spiritually homeless and disappointed, who want to find again their individual sense of spiritual connectedness. Areas of Interests: Radule has currently been exploring how dreamwork (embodied dream-tending, intuitive associations) and mindfulness meditation can work in complementary ways, deepening the therapeutic process.
Classes She’ll Teach: Depth Psychology and Cultural Issues II (with Michael Kearney, below) | | | |
| | | |  Michael Kearney has over 25 years experience in Hospice and Palliative Care. He was involved for many years in undergraduate and postgraduate medical education as Associate Professor of Medicine at University College Dublin and Trinity College Dublin. As an international lecturer and workshop leader he has taught throughout Europe, North and South America, Asia and Australia. He is currently based in Santa Barbara, California where he works as Medical Director of the Palliative Care Service at Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital and Associate Medical Director at Visiting Nurse and Hospice Care. He also acts as medical director to the Anam Cara Project for Compassionate Companionship in Life and Death in Bend, Oregon. Areas of Interest: Michael’s particular interest is in the area of integrated whole-person healthcare and in psychological and existential aspects of end-of-life care and he has written two books in which he explores these issues. Classes He’ll Teach: Depth Psychology and Cultural Issues II | | | |
| | | | Carol Tanenbaum (no picture available) has been working in the field of psychology since 1978 and is a practicing psychoanalyst. She is also an artist who has also involved herself in working with people who have suffered trauma resulting either from cycles of violence within the family or the result of civil strife and war. As part of the psychoanalytic community of the Los Angeles Institute and Society for Psychoanalytic Studies, Carol chairs the Ernest S. Lawrence Trauma Center, a community outreach project that provides pro bono psychotherapy to "at risk" populations. One of those projects is The Soldiers Project, which is now a group of over 100 psychotherapists who provide support and psychotherapy to soldiers returning from Afghanistan and Iraq and their families. She offers her time and expertise to work with teen mothers from the Echo Park area of Los Angeles. She also organizes workshops each year which address a psychoanalytic perspective in addressing issues of culture as they enter the consultation room. Areas of Interest: Psychoanalysis from Freud and Jung through object relations to more contemporary areas of neuropsychology and infant research. Carol also loves traveling and hiking and feels a particular urgency to address the problems of the environment. She has thrown her energy into becoming an activist on the fronts of human rights, animal rights, and the rights of the environment. Classes She’ll Teach: Phenomenology of Depth Psychological Community/Ecological Fieldwork, Community/Ecological Fieldwork Advisor | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
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