Faculty Showcase

Office of the Provost – Faculty Showcase

Clinical Psychology

Camille Jarmie Harris (Core Faculty)

APA Division 39 Spring Meeting, held on April 27, 2023

Authors: Laura Westmorland (student), Madeline Jessie (student), & Camille Jarmie Harris (faculty)

Panel Discussion: Shattering the Silence in the Cultural Matrix

Counseling Psychology

Kathee Miller (Associate Core Faculty)

Training workshop and retreat for clinicians and somatic practitioners, entitled, “Psyche-Soma II – Integration and ‘Indwelling’ through the Empathic Relational Field: Reflection of Images, Words, Metaphors, Affect and Gestures in the Practice of Authentic Movement”.

Tom Steffora (Core Faculty)

Tom Steffora received a commendation from Dignity Health’s Marian Regional Medical Center for services to the medical staff during the time of the COVID-19 pandemic. The services included psychological support to nursing staff during the death of a colleague; emotional first aid to physicians, nurses, and ancillary staff during peak times of COVID-19; counseling physicians involved in critical incidents; and continued day-to-day availability for emotional support to all staff. The commendation stated, “The work you have done and continue to do is positively influencing the mental well-being and mental health of our staff, and it is invaluable”.

Depth Psychology with Specialization in Community, Liberation, Indigenous, and Eco-Psychologies

Dr. Susan James (Chair/Core Faculty)

APA Division 27, Society for Community Research & Action 19th Biennial Conference: Where Do We Go From Here? Dreaming New Community Futures, held June 20-24, 2023

Town Hall: Exploring Fugitive Realities Through Decoloniality: Visual Arts and Praxis

Drs. Nuria Ciofalo (Core Faculty) & Susan James (Chair/Core Faculty)

APA Division 27, Society for Community Research & Action 19th Biennial Conference: Where Do We Go From Here? Dreaming New Community Futures, held June 20-24, 2023

Town Hall: Struggles, Hybridity, Ruptures, and Choques in Co-constructing Decolonial Community Psychologies in Classrooms and Communities

Depth Psychology and Creativity with Emphasis in the Arts and Humanities

Dr. Susan Rowland (Core Faculty)

Southern Arizona Friends of Jung, held on March 4, 2023

Virtual Presentation: Jung and the LGBTQA Family

Dr. Jeanne M. Schul (Adjunct Faculty)

Jung and the Numinous: Art, Science and Psyche, 18th Conference of Research in Jungian and Analytical Psychology; 27-30 July, 2023

Panel: In-Depth Body-Mapping: An Artistic, Somatic, and Jungian Approach

Co-Presenters: Ania Borysiewicz, Kalen Boyd, Pamela Brown, Valentine Giraud, & Zonia Lucero (all DCH students).

Depth Psychology with Specialization in Integrative Therapy and Healing Practices

Dr. Juliet Rohde-Brown (Chair/DPT Faculty), in collaboration with Angelina Gripp (DPT student), Dante Spencer (Clinical student), and Austin Chandler (Clinical student):

APA Division 32, 16^th Annual Conference for the Society of Humanistic Psychology, Conference theme: Community. Collaboration. Embodiment: Cultivating an Ethic of Radical Hospitality in Treacherous Times, held on March 16-19, 2023

Panel presentation/Continuing Education Offering: Embodying Care Across Divides: Meeting Spiritual Needs of Diverse Groups in Substance Abuse Treatment

Juliet Rohde-Brown: Symbols of Care

Austin Chander: Beyond the Cartesian Divide

Dante Spencer: Evolving Racial Trauma Contexts in Future DSM Considerations

Dr. Fanny Brewster (Core Faculty)

Spirituality & Psychotherapy Conference, held on March 24, 2023

Virtual Presentations: Africanist Women and the African Holocaust; Psychological Trauma and Resiliency of Africanist Women; and Archetypal Mother of Sorrow and the Power of Healing

The C.G. Jung Institute of San Francisco, Continuing Education Workshop, held on March 18-19, 2023.

Workshop in collaboration with other professionals: The City of Bones: Spectral Presences as Healthers of Cultural Complexes

Depth Psychology with Specialization in Jungian Psychology and Archetypal Studies

Dr. Glen Slater (Co-Chair/Core Faculty)
Public Lecture at the Nashville Jung Group, April 14, 2023

Presentation: Virtual Lecture American Gun Violence–A Jungian Depth Psychological View

Presentation at C. G. Jung Institute Zürich Conference “Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Emotions and their Impact”, June 2023

Presentation: Dissociating and Posthumanism

Book Chapter: Frontierism and the American Psyche, in I. Burnett (Forthcoming). Re-Visioning the American Psyche: Jungian, Archetypal, and Mythological Reflections. Routledge.

Dr. Keiron Le Grice (Co-Chair/Core Faculty)

Lecture for the Jungian Mystery School (South Africa) 12-week series on synchronicity, held in May 2023.

Presentation: The Colloquy of the Gods: Astrology as Cosmic Synchronicity.

Dr. Safron Rossi (Core Faculty)

Public Lecture at Jung Society of Atlanta, August 19, 2023

Presentation: The Kore Archetype

Public Lecture at New York Center for Jungian Studies: Jung on the Hudson, July 17, 2023

Presentation: In Ananke’s Lap: Necessity and Grace

Mythological Studies

Dr. Emily Lord-Kambitsch (Co-Chair/Associate Core)

Poetry Chapbook, Western Yoga: A Field Report on Desertion and Deliverance. Bottlecap Press, 2023.

Conference Presentation at the Classical Association Conference, held in Cambridge, UK, on April 22, 2023: Ovid and Ecopsychology”

Conference Presentation at the Association for the Study of Women and Mythology Conference, held in Seneca Falls, NY, May 5-6, 2023: A Siren’s Odyssey of Self-Becoming in the Book of Delights

Keynote Presentation at Mythologium, Pacifica Graduate Institute, July 2023: Becoming Heart-less: Mythic Metamorphoses and the Posthuman. Fates and Graces

Dr. David Odorisio (Co-Chair/Associate Core)

Edited Book: A New Gnosis: Comic Books, Comparative Mythology, and Depth Psychology. Palgrave Macmillan, 2023.

Dr. Evans Lansing Smith (Core Faculty)

Book Chapter: Graphic Mythologies in D. Odorisio (2023). A New Gnosis: Comic Books, Comparative Mythology, and Depth Psychology. Palgrave Macmillan, 2023.

Book: Tikkun. Coniunctio Editions, 2021.

Dr. Devon Deimler (Adjunct Faculty)

Book Chapter: in the collection about Robert Downey Sr., Spectacular Optical Press (Forthcoming).

Monograph on Nor Hall and the women of archetypal psychology (Forthcoming)

Contributing artist-scholar and moderator, discussion with filmmakers of the Oscar-nominated animated feature, Marcel the Shell with Shoes On, at the Philosophical Research Society (PRS).

Conference presentation: In Hybrid Moments: Feminine Myths of Crisis, Metamorphosis, and Aesthetic Survival. – Presented at PRS November 2022, will be presented again at Morbid Anatomy, on May 22, 2023.

Dr. Patrick Mahaffey (Professor Emeritus)

Invited Lecture at the Minnesota Jung Association, December 4, 2022: Integrative Spirituality – Conjoining Jungian Psychology and Contemplative Yoga.

Invited Lecture at the Power and the God of Love: A Process-Open-Relational Conference, Center for Process Studies and Center for Open & Relational Theology, Napa, CA, November 5, 2022: Integrative Spirituality: God-Images, Individuation, and Awakening.