FACULTY BIOGRAPHIES M.A./Ph.D. DEPTH PSYCHOLOGY

Department Chair

Dr. Joseph Coppin has been on the faculty at Pacifica since 1996 and has taught across several programs focusing on studies in Archetypal Psychology, Research, and Depth Psychotherapy. He chaired the Depth Psychology Program for four years and the Depth Psychotherapy Program for its first three years. He has most recently served for three years on the institute's Executive Management Council. Dr. Coppin has been a practicing psychotherapist since 1980 and has written and published in the field of Depth Psychology, including co-authoring the text, The Art of Inquiry: A Depth Psychological Approach. In addition to his teaching at Pacifica, Dr. Coppin is a contributing faculty member at the Instituto de Psicologia Profunda in Mexico City.

Courses taught: Archetypal Psychology (CLE), Selected Topics I (DPS), Introduction to Depth Psychology (CLE, DPS)

"Teaching and learning at Pacifica has always been, for me, a psyche centered and a psychoactive experience. We begin with the assumption that education in psychology necessitates a participation with the psyche. It is a lively and deeply satisfying approach. The material we study comes alive here, and entering a classroom one gets a sense of walking into a space in which the faculty, the students, and the ideas are all equally engaged in a fantastic collaboration."

Core Faculty  

Nuria Ciofalo is co-Associate Chair in the Community Psychology, Liberation Psychology, and Ecopsychology specialization. Born in Mexico, she gained her B.A. and first M.A. in Germany where she specialized in psychoanalytic theories, particularly Jung and Adler, and, her latter M.A. and Ph.D. in a community focused psychology program at University of Hawaii. From 1982-1987, she was a professor of psychology and chair of the Psychology Department for five years at University of Xochicalco (Mexico), for two summers in an M.A. psychology summer program at University of Las Americas. Since her doctorate in 1996, she has worked in wide variety of research situations in the U.S. and Mexico, training others to do research and managing and evaluating large-scale research projects. For the last seven years she has been a Senior Evaluation Analyst at The California Endowment.

Courses taught: Introduction to Critical Community Psychology (CLE), Indigenous Psychologies II (CLE), Community/Ecological Fieldwork and Research (CLE), Dissertation Development I-III (DP), Research Methods II (DPS), Community Program and Organizational Evaluation (CLE)

Jennifer Leigh Selig, Ph.D.joined Pacifica's faculty in 2005, and has served as Chair and Research Coordinator before moving into chairing the Jungian and Archetypal Studies specialization. Her books include Thinking Outside the Church: 110 Ways to Connect With Your Spiritual Nature and Reimagining Education: Essays on Retrieving the Soul of Learning which she co-edited with Dr. Dennis Slattery, a Mythological Studies professor at Pacifica.

Courses taught: Foundations for Research in Depth Psychology (DJA), The Complex: Jung's "Royal Road" to the Unconcious (DJA), Research Process (DP), Our Soul's Code: Depth Psychological Views of Vocation (co-taught with James Hollis, Ph.D.) (DJA)

Alan Kilpatrick is the Associate Chair in the Somatic Studies specialization. He is an anthropologist who received his Ph.D. from UCLA where he was a student of archeologist 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.

Courses taught: Indigenous Psychologies (CLE), History of Healing Traditions II: Non-Western and Indigenous Healing Traditions (DPS), Dissertation Development I-III (DP), Conceiving the Dissertation (DP)

Mary Watkins, Ph.D. is co-Associate Chair in the Community Psychology, Liberation Psychology, and Ecopsychology specialization.  She is core faculty in the Depth program and serves as Coordinator of  Community and Ecological Fieldwork and Research.  She is a clinical and developmental psychologist and was an early member of the archetypal/imaginal psychology movement. She has worked in a wide variety of clinical settings and with groups on issues of peace, diversity, social justice, reconciliation, immigration, and the envisioning of community and cultural transformation. She is 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.

Courses taught: Psychologies of Liberation (CLE), Community/Ecological Fieldwork and Research (CLE & DP), Community Dreamwork (CLE), Enacting the Oral Tradition (DP), Foundations for Research in Depth Psychology: Participatory Qualitative Research (CLE), Public Conversation (CLE), Phenomenology and Communication of Depth Psychological , Cultural, and Ecological Work (CLE)

Dr. Ginette Paris is a psychologist, therapist, and writer who is core faculty in the Mythological Studies Program at Pacifica. She is the author, among other books, of Wisdom of the Psyche (Routledge 2007), Pagan Meditations (Spring Publications), and Pagan Grace (Spring).

Course taught: Eros, Isolation, and Relationship (DPS)

Aaron Kipnis, Ph.D. is core faculty in the Counseling program at Pacifica and is the 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 eradication in Afghanistan and India.  Aaron is a clinical psychologist and core faculty in the Counseling Psychology Program at Pacifica, where he has taught for 13 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. He's currently working on a book on the Deep Psychology of Money titled The Midas Complex (Indigo Phoenix Books, 2010).

Courses taught: Community/Ecological Fieldwork and Research (CLE), Psychology of Violence and its Prevention (CLE)

Stephen Aizenstat, Ph.D. is the founding president of Pacifica Graduate Institute, a private graduate school offering masters and doctoral programs in psychology and mythological studies. He is a licensed Clinical Psychologist, a Marriage and Family Therapist, and a credentialed public school teacher. He received his Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from Fielding Institute in 1982, and his Master of Education from the University of California in 1975. Dr. Aizensat's areas of emphasis include depth psychology, dream research, and imaginal and archetypal psychology. His original research centers on a psychodynamic process of "tending the living image," particularly in the context of dreamwork.

Courses taught: Imagery in Somatic Studies I: The Technique of Active Imagination and the Practice of Dream Tending (DPS), Dreams: Tending the Living Images (DJA)

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 President of the C.G. Jung Study Center of Southern California. In addition to being core faculty in Pacifica's Counseling Psychology Program, he has taught in four of Pacifica's other degree programs, including the Alchemy and Mystery Traditions class for Depth students. He maintains a private practice in Santa Barbara, where he also founded the Santa Barbara Friends of Jung Society.

Courses taught1: Alchemy and the Mystery Traditions (DP), Post-Jungian Psychology (CLE)

Elizabeth Nelson, Ph.D. is core faculty and Research Coordinator in the Depth Psychotherapy program and the Director of Pacifica's Dissertation Office. She has been teaching courses in research, writing, and dissertation development at Pacifica since 2002. In 2005, she and co-author Joseph Coppin published The Art of Inquiry, used across programs at Pacifica and at other graduate schools, which expresses many key ideas about inquiry centered on the living psyche. Elizabeth's interest in research is the flowering of 30 years professional experience as a writer, editor, and book coach for aspiring authors through her consulting company Winged Feat, a name inspired by a dream nearly 20 years ago. Her own research interests focus on mythologies of feminine power and cultural expressions of the shadow and evil. Elizabeth is a lifelong athlete, a certified massage therapist, and an avid student of Tarot, Runes, and archetypal astrology.

Courses taught: Imagery in Somatic Studies I: The Technique of Active Imagination and the Practice of Dream Tending (DPS), Foundations of Research in Somatic Psychology (DPS)

Robert D. Romanyshyn, Ph.D. is a teacher, writer, and psychotherapist trained in phenomenology and depth psychology, who applies his therapeutic experience to an analysis of cultural and historical issues. Since 1991 he has been a core faculty member in the Clinical Psychology Program at Pacifica and has taught as well in Depth Psychology, Mythological Studies, and Depth Psychology with an Emphasis in Psychotherapy.  He earned his Ph.D. in 1970 at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, where he studied phenomenology, philosophy, and depth psychology. He has been a guest professor and has given workshops at many universities and professional societies in the U.S., Canada, Europe, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. He has published six books, edited special journal issues, contributed chapters to over thirty volumes, published numerous articles and book reviews, and has done radio, television, and on line interviews.

Course taught: Imaginal Ways of Knowing (DP)

Cynthia Anne Hale, PhD, LCSW, practices depth psychology as an educator, writer, and psychotherapist, exploring ways that inner and outer experience can be integrated through the creative imagination to facilitate change. She is a core faculty member at Pacifica and currently supports students in their research process in four programs. An alumna of the Depth Psychology program, she continues to "Follow the Red" (the title of her dissertation), and has recently completed an essay that is in review for publication entitled, "What About Being Red? Encounters with the Color of Jung's Red Book." She is writing a book about the archetypal effects of empathically engaging with someone else's experience of trauma. Cynthia's work today is grounded in twenty-four years as a psychotherapist. 

Course taught: Research Process (DP)

Paul Gabrinetti, Ph.D.(bio forthcoming)

Courses taught: Jungian Psychology II (DP)

Susan Rowland, Ph.D. is Associate Chair of Jungian and Archetypal Studies. She is author of many studies of Jung, literary theory and gender including C.G. Jung and Literary Theory (1999), Jung: A Feminist Revision (2002), Jung as a Writer (2005) and also edited Psyche and the Arts (2008). Her most recent book is C.G. Jung and the Humanities (2010), showing how Jung's work is a response to the creative, psychological, spiritual, philosophical and ecological crises of our age. Susan's work is not so much 'about' Jung as an attempt to develop his special insights into myth, technology, the feminine, nature and the numinous for today's wounded world.

Courses taught: C.G. Jung in Context (DJA), Imaginal Ways of Knowing: Active Imagination, The Red Book and Psychic Creativity (DJA), and Mythopoetic Imagination: Viewing Film, Art, and Literature From a Jungian Perspective (DJA)

Distinguished Visiting Faculty

Edward Casey, Ph.D. is Distinguished Visiting Faculty in the Depth Program. He is also Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at SUNY, Stony Brook, where he was chairperson of the department for ten years. 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.  Dr. Casey is the  President of the American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division.

Courses taught: Ecopsychology I: The Ethics of Place (CLE), Hermeneutic and Phenomenological Traditions (CLE), Frontiers of Depth Psychology (DP), Community/Ecological Fieldwork and Research (CLE), Dissertation Development I (DPS)

Adjunct Faculty

John Beebe, M.D., a physician specializing in psychotherapy, is a Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and a past president of the C. G. Jung Institute of San Francisco.   He is the author of Integrity in Depth, editor of C. G. Jung's Aspects of the Masculine, and co-author of The Presence of the Feminine in Film.  He is the founding editor of The San Francisco Jung Institute Library Journal (now titled Jung Journal: Culture and Psyche), and a was the first American co-editor of the London-based Journal of Analytical Psychology.  An international lecturer is widely known for his work on psychological types, the psychology of moral process, and the Jungian understanding of film.  Recently he has been engaged in training the first generation of analytical psychologists in China..

Course taught: Psychological Types

Katya Bloom, Ph.D. is author of The Embodied Self: movement and psychoanalysis, (2006: Karnac) and co-author of Moves: a sourcebook of ideas for body awareness and creative movement (1998: Routledge), as well as many published articles, and three stage plays.  A Board Certified Dance/Movement Therapist (BC-DMT), she maintained a private practice in movement psychotherapy with adults and children in London until 2008.  While in the UK, she taught on the DMT course at Roehampton University, and also taught movement to actors at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art for 20 years.  Her PhD, "Movement as a Psychophysical Process", was completed under the auspices of the Tavistock Clinic.  Katya is a Certified Movement Analyst from LIMS, New York.  She joined the faculty at Pacifica in 2010, with its introduction of the 'Emphasis in Somatic Studies', and now practices movement therapy in Santa Barbara.

Course taught: The Psychoanalytic Tradition (DPS)

Robert Bosnak, M.D. is a Dutch Jungian psychoanalyst, and diplomate of the C.G.Jung Institute, who trained in Zurich, Switzerland from 1971 to 1977. In the late 1970's he pioneered a radically new method of dreamwork, based loosely on the work of C.G.Jung, especially on Jung's technique of active imagination and his studies of Alchemy. His books include A Little Course in Dreams (translated into 12 languages) and Embodiment: Creative Imagination in Medicine, Art and Travel.

Course taught: Dreams: Tending the Living Images (DJA)

Linda Buzzell-Saltzman has been a psychotherapist for more than 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.

Course taught: Community/Ecological Fieldwork and Research (CLE)

Patricia Cane, Ph.D. is founder and director of Capacitar International, a project in multicultural wellness education that focuses on personal and societal healing and transformation. For 23 years, Pat has worked with thousands of grassroots and professionals throughout 35 countries in the Americas, Europe, Africa, Asia and the Middle East, utilizing a popular education approach to trauma healing in areas affected by poverty, disasters, and domestic and political violence. She has developed programs in "body literacy", involving healing methods and wellness education for psychologists, social workers, teachers, care givers, medical professionals, grassroots leaders, spiritual leaders and people living with HIV/AIDS and other disabilities. She is author of Trauma Healing and Transformation, Capacitar for Kids, Living in Wellness, as well as other Capacitar manuals in different languages (English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Hebrew, Arabic, Kinyarwandan, Swahili, Setswana and Tetum).

Course taught: Somatic Approaches to Healing Trauma (CLE)

Craig Chalquist, Ph.D. is core faculty in East-West Psychology at the California Institute of Integral Studies and adjunct faculty at John F. Kennedy University, where he served as acting department chair (Consciousness & Transformative Studies), designing and launching the world's first ecotherapy certificate. He earned his Ph.D. in Depth Psychology at Pacifica Graduate Institute and also holds a Master Gardener certificate and another in permaculture design. He is the author of Terrapsychology: Reengaging the Soul of Place (Spring Journal Books, 2007) and co-editor with Linda Buzzell, MFT of Ecotherapy: Healing with Nature in Mind (Sierra Club Books, 2009). He is currently involved in conducting grant-funded research on green spaces and mental health in Oakland, CA and actively setting up other ecotherapy certificates.

Course taught: Ecopsychology II: Engaged Deep Ecology

Alfred Collins is a Sanskritist and clinical psychologist with Ph.D.s in both areas. Formerly a core faculty member in East/West psychology at CIIS, he is the author of a book on the self psychology of the father-son archetype, and has lectured and published widely on films, music, visual art, and the interface between Indian psychological thought and Western depth psychologies. His current research aims at a critical depth psychology of culture, which he views as being in its essence a third thing (a "tertium") mediating between the finite ordinary world and the transcendent realm of awareness and bliss that we all know intimately, although (in the present-day absence of authentic culture) mostly in absentia. 

Course taught: Introduction to Depth Psychology (DJA)

Michael Conforti, Ph.D. is a Jungian Analyst, and is the founder and director of the Assisi Institute. Dr. Conforti's work has resulted not only in a training institute based on his discoveries, but also the development of a new discipline, Archetypal Pattern Analysis. He has been a faculty member at the C.G. Jung Institute - Boston, the C.G Jung Foundation of New York, and for many years served ais a Senior Associate faculty member in the Doctoral and Master's Programs in Clinical Psychology at Antioch New England. A pioneer in the field of matter-psyche studies, Dr. Conforti is actively investigating the workings of archetypal fields and the relationship between Jungian psychology and the New Sciences.

Course taught: Archetypes: Universal Patterns of the Psyche (DJA)

Jennifer Freed, Ph.D. has taught at Pacifica for 20 years. She is seasoned Marriage Family Therapist, a professor of depth astrology, and the co-founder, co-director of an enormously successful non profit program for teens and families entititled AHA! (www.ahasb.com). She has written curriculum for Character, Compassion, Creativity, and Sexual Wisdom for young adults, which helped decrease suspensions at Carpinteria High School by 70%. Currently she is hosting her own radio show FREED UP! and will have her book Lessons From Stanley the Cat published by Penguin books in 2010.

Course taught: Council Practice (CLE)

Ginger Grant, Ph.D., is a Professor of Marketing and Innovation at Sheridan Institute of Technology & Advanced Learning in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada.  Her background before studying at Pacifica was the world of mergers and acquisitions. After completing her graduate work at PGI, Ginger joined the teacher/trainer group for the Stanford 'Creativity in Business' program. She has developed programs and courses in the transformation of corporate cultures, visual analytics, digital storytelling, scenario planning, archetypal marketing and creativity and innovation.  Ginger also serves on the Conference Board of Canada's Council for Client Relationships and Customer Experience.  Her areas of interest include design-driven cultures of innovation, scenario planning and strategy, organizational design, the use of archetypes in business, story as a tool for transformation, and the care and feeding of personal creativity.

Course taught: The Political and Organizational Psyche (DJA)

James Hollis, Ph.D., was born in Springfield, Illinois. He graduated with an A.B. from Manchester College in 1962 and with a Ph.D. from Drew University in 1967. He taught the Humanities 26 years in various colleges and universities before retraining as a Jungian analyst at the Jung Institute of Zurich, Switzerland (1977-82). He is a licensed Jungian analyst in private practice in Houston, Texas, where he served as Executive Director of the Jung Educational Center of Houston from 1997-2008. He is a retired Senior Training Analyst for the Inter-Regional Society of Jungian Analysts, was the first Director of Training of the Philadelphia Jung Institute, and is vice president emeritus of the Philemon Foundation, which is dedicated to the publication of the complete works of Jung.

Course taught: Our Soul's Code: Depth Psychological Views of Vocation (DJA)

Richard Kradin, M.D., is Associate Professor at Harvard Medical School and member of the Departments of Medicine and the Center for Psychoanalytic Studies at the Massachusetts General Hospital.  A Jungian analyst, he is also trained in neo-Freudian psychoanalytic psychotherapy.  He is a supervising analyst and teaches courses on dream interpretation to psychotherapists and candidates in psychoanalysis.  He is the author of the Herald Dream: an Approach to the Initial Dream in Psychotherapy, and has recently authored The Placebo Response and the Power of Unconscious Healing (London: Routledge, 2008). 

Course taught: Neuroscience and Somatic Depth Psychology II (DPS), Research Methods I (DPS)

Kathryn Madden has a Ph.D. in Psychology and Religion from the Union Theological Seminary at Columbia University, NYC, and is a licensed psychoanalyst. Her areas of emphasis include Depth Psychology: Jungian & Psychodynamic focus; Early Developmental Trauma--Creative Illness--Religious, Abyssal Experience--Cyclical Nekyia and the Creative Process; Archetypes in Transformation in the Live Ritual Space of Theatre. She is the author of Dark Light of the Soul, and a co-editor of Encyclopedia of Psychology & Religion.

Course taught: Dreamwork: Tending the Living Images (DJA), The Psychoanalytic Tradition: The Ongoing Conversation (DJA)

Maureen Murdock, Ph.D. is a Jungian-oriented psychotherapist in private practice in Santa Barbara, CA. She previously served as Chair and Core Faculty member of the MA Counseling Psychology Program at Pacifica. She teaches memoir classes and workshops internationally and is the author of the best-selling book, The Heroine’s Journey, which explores the rich territory of the feminine psyche and delineates the feminine psycho-spiritual journey. Murdock is also the author of Fathers’ Daughters: Breaking the Ties that Bind; Unreliable Truth: On Memoir and Memory; Spinning Inward: Using Guided Imagery with Children; and The Heroine’s Journey Workbook. She edited a anthology of memoir writing entitled Monday Morning Memoirs: Women in the Second Half of Life and has completed a memoir about addiction and mental illness in the family entitled Hooked on Hope: A Mother’s Tale.  She has also written pieces for the Huffington Post on criminal justice and mental illness. Her books have been translated into a dozen languages.

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 at Pacifica 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.

Courses taught: Individual and Collective Trauma (CLE), Frontiers of Liberation Psychologies (DP)

Betsy Perluss, Ph.D. 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.

Course taught: Ecopsychology: The Psyche in Nature

Ann Marie Plane, Ph. D., Psy. D., is a cultural historian and practicing clinical psychoanalyst in Santa Barbara.  She is Associate Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Barbara.  She does psychoanalytically-oriented cultural history, working primarily in the history of colonialism and the Native American peoples of early New England.  She is the author of one book, Colonial Intimacies: Indian Marriage in Early New England (Cornell U. P., 2000), and her current research explores dreams and visions as they reveal the processes of colonization in seventeenth-century New England, tentatively titled: Invisible Worlds: Colonialism, Dreams and Visionaries in Seventeenth-century New England, forthcoming from University of Pennsylvania Press.  It was this research project that led her, in the late 1990s, to seek out psychoanalytic training, and she is a graduate member of the Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis, Los Angeles. She has held fellowships at the John Carter Brown Library, at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, the Huntington Library in San Marino, California, and was the Erikson Scholar in Residence at the Austen Riggs Center in Stockbridge, Massachusetts.

Course taught: Psychoanalytic Tradition: Social Psychoanalysis (CLE)

Harry Polkinhorn, Ph.D.  is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at San Diego State University, where he is Director of SDSU Press. He is a permanent visiting professor at the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo, Brazil. He has published over 40 books of poetry, fiction, translation, and edited collections. His work has been translated into Russian, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, and other languages. He has a clinical practice in psychoanalysis. He is an affiliate member of the American Psychoanalytic Association and is the librarian of the San Diego Psychoanalytic Society and Institute, as well as the Ralph R. Greenson Archivist of SDPSI.

Course taught: Literary and Poetic Imagination (DP)

Lori Pye received her Ph.D. in Mythological Studies with an Emphasis in Depth Psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute. Her background consists of nonprofit executive management and academic instruction. As an environmentalist, Dr. Pye worked with international NGO's to co-develop the Eastern Tropical Pacific Seascape Corridor with the Ministers of the Environment from Costa Rica, Colombia, Panama, and Ecuador. She has led international conferences on diverse issues as Nature and Human Nature, Changing Perspectives, The Mythology of Violence, and The Aesthetic Nature of Change. Dr. Pye teaches Ecopsychology at the University of California in Santa Barbara (UCSB), Ecology Concepts and Applications for Ecopsychology at Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado, Human Ecology and Sustainable Global Management at Antioch University and Myth, Literature & Religious Studies at Pacifica Graduate Institute. She is on the Editorial Board for Ecopsychology Journal. Dr. Pye is the Director for the Institute for Cultural Change.

Course taught: Depth Psychology and the Mythic Tradition (DP)

Safron Rossi, Ph.D., is Director of Opus Archives & Research Center which holds the archival and manuscript collections of scholars including Joseph Campbell, James Hillman, Marion Woodman, and Christine Downing. Her Ph.D. is in Mythological Studies and her writing and scholarly studies focus on mythology, archetypal psychology, third wave feminist studies, and the western astrological tradition.

Course taught: Depth Psychology and the Mythic Tradition (DJA)

Jenny Sasser, Ph.D. is currently Chair and Associate Professor in the Department of Human Sciences at Marylhurst University. As an undergraduate Jenny attended Willamette University, graduating Cum Laude in Psychology and Music; her interdisciplinary graduate studies at University of Oregon and Oregon State University focused on the Human Sciences, with specialization areas in adult development and aging, women's studies, and critical social theory and alternative research methodologies. Over the past fifteen years she has been involved in inquiry in the areas of creativity in later life; older women's embodiment; sexuality and aging; critical Gerontological theory; transformational adult learning practices; and cross-generational collaborative inquiry.

Course taught: Research Process (DP)

Mady Schutzman is a writer, teacher, and theatre artist with an MA in sociocultural anthropology and a Ph.D. 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.   

Course taught: Community Theater: Theatre of the Oppressed (CLE)

Glen Slater, Ph.D. studied psychology and religious studies at the University of Sydney before coming to the United States 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.

Courses taught: Jungian Psychology (DPS, CLE), Jungian Psychology: The Individuation Journey (DJA), Jungian Paycbology III (DP), Archetypal Psychology (DJA)

Lisa Sloan, Ph.D. is a licensed clinical psychologist in private practice specializing in Jungian and Mind-Body approaches to psychotherapy.  She completed her Ph.D. at Pacifica Graduate Institute and has taught at Pacifica as adjunct since 2000. She was past director of training for the Clinical Program and has enjoyed serving on dissertation committees and helping students in dissertation development.  Lisa has studied and practiced the healing arts of various spiritual and indigenous traditions including Shamanism.  Lisa also has an MFA degree in Theater and Performing Arts and has performed on Broadway, off Broadway, Regional Theater, Television, and Film. She is deeply interested in imaginal and oracular ways of knowing and is devoted to listening for and tending to the images of the soul that speak to our imaginations of individual and collective suffering, transformation, and healing.   

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 at Pacifica 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.

Courses taught: Individual and Collective Trauma (CLE), Frontiers of Liberation Psychologies (DP)

Tina Stromsted, Ph.D., MFT, BC-DTR, is an analyst and faculty member of the C. G. Jung Institute of San Francisco, in private practice in San Francisco. Past co-founder and faculty member of the Authentic Movement Institute, she teaches internationally, and at the California Institute of Integral Studies, and with Marion Woodman and her team in BodySoul Rhythms leadership trainings. With three decades of clinical experience and a background in dance and theater, her numerous articles and book chapters explore the integration of body, mind, psyche and soul in healing and transformation.

Course taught: Alchemy (DPS)

Carol Tanenbaum 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.

Courses taught: Phenomenology and Communication of Depth Psychological, Cultural, and Ecological Work (CLE), Community/Ecological Fieldwork and Research (CLE)

Beverly Title, Ph.D is an international consultant and trainer on restorative justice and school violence prevention. Dr. Title is the founder and director emerita of the Longmont (Colorado) Community Justice Partnership that provides restorative justice services in the criminal justice system and restorative discipline in local schools.  She is the program developer of the No-Bullying Program and worked with the Ministry of Education in Chile to train his taskforce and develop national policies to prevent school violence. Dr. Title was honored with the Virginia Mackey Award for Leadership in Restorative Justice and currently serves on the Colorado Restorative Justice Council.  She was an adjunct professor at Naropa University and is the author of Teaching Peace: A Restorative Justice Framework for Strengthening Relationships. She now works with ReSolutionaries,Inc to bring restorative practices to schools and other communities.

Course taught: Restorative Justice (CLE)

Meg Wilbur, MFA, MA is a Jungian Analyst with a practice in Cambria, CA.  She is a founding member, previous vice president, and training faculty of the CG Jung Study Center of Southern California. She was a professor at UCLA's School of Theater, Film, and Television, directing plays and teaching acting and voice for the stage.  She was faculty at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts.  She taught with Marion Woodman and her BodySoul Rhythms® team.  She is core faculty for the Marion Woodman Foundation, whose aim is to integrate psyche and soma through Jung's psychology, and Woodman's work on the embodied feminine. She leads Wellsprings of Feminine Renewal intensives for the MWF at Pacifica, and writes plays from fairy tales, as teaching stories for her workshops.

Course taught: Post-Jungian Psychology: Marion Woodman and the Embodied Psyche (DPS)

Jonathan Young, Ph.D., played an important role in Pacifica's formative years, including serving as founding curator of the Joseph Campbell archives as well as the James Hillman and Marija Gimbutas collections. He also created and chaired the Mythological Studies program. More recently, he's been lecturing in academic settings such as Oxford, UCLA School of Medicine, and Notre Dame. He especially enjoys making presentations for arts organizations, including the San Diego Opera, Edinburgh International Festival, expressive arts therapy conferences, and screenwriting programs. A psychologist and storyteller, he also leads workshops at C.G. Jung Societies in various parts of the world. Jonathan currently teaches film studies at Meridian University in Petaluma, and does trainings for psychotherapists around California through his Center for Story and Symbol. Jonathan also consults on films for major studios, tells stories at folklore festivals, and appears as a mythology expert on the History Channel. He has written several books and selected articles on personal mythology.

Course taught: Mythopoetic Imagination: Viewing Film, Art, and Literature from a Jungian Perspective (DJA)

Faculty Bios Pending:

Dr. Tor Wager: Neuroscience and Somatic DP II