Faculty Showcase

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Office of the Provost – Faculty Showcase

Clinical Psychology

Westmorland, L. (student), Jessie, M. (student), & Harris, C. J. (faculty) (April 27, 2023). Panel Discussion: Shattering the Silence in the Cultural Matrix. Presentation at APA Division 39 Spring Meeting.

Counseling Psychology

Bennett, M. (2024). Towards an integrated analytical psychology: Return to freedom and dignity. Routledge.

Filippides, N. (2023). Beyond the couch: A psychoanalytic approach to equine assisted psychotherapy. Independently published.

Miller, K. 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 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

Ciofalo, N., & James, S. (June 20-24, 2023). Town Hall: Exploring Fugitive Realities Through Decoloniality: Visual Arts and Praxis. Presentation at APA Division 27, Society for Community Research & Action 19th Biennial Conference: Where Do We Go From Here? Dreaming New Community Futures.

Ciofalo, N., & James, S. (June 20-24, 2023). Town Hall: Struggles, Hybridity, Ruptures, and Choques in Co-constructing Decolonial Community Psychologies in Classrooms and Communities. Presentation at APA Division 27, Society for Community Research & Action 19th Biennial Conference: Where Do We Go From Here? Dreaming New Community Futures.

Depth Psychology and Creativity with Emphasis in the Arts and Humanities

Dr. Susan Rowland (2023). Jung and the LGBTQA Family,  Presentation at the Southern Arizona Friends of Jung, held on March 4, 2023.

Schul, J. M. (Adjunct Faculty), Borysiewicz, A., Boyd, K., Brown, P., Giraud, V., & Lucero, Z. (all DCH students). (2023). Panel: In-Depth Body-Mapping: An Artistic, Somatic, and Jungian Approach. Presentation at Jung and the Numinous: Art, Science and Psyche, 18th Conference of Research in Jungian and Analytical Psychology, July 27-30, 2023.

Collaboration between Clinical and Integrative Therapy and Healing Practices Student and Faculty Presentation

Rohde-Brown, J. (Chair/DPT Faculty), Gripp, A. (DPT student), Spencer, D. (Clinical student), & Chandler, A. (Clinical student). (2023). Panel presentation/Continuing Education Offering: Embodying Care Across Divides: Meeting Spiritual Needs of Diverse Groups in Substance Abuse Treatment. In APA Division 32, 16th Annual Conference for the Society of Humanistic Psychology, Conference theme: Community. Collaboration. Embodiment: Cultivating an Ethic of Radical Hospitality in Treacherous Times, March 16-19, 2023.

Rohde-Brown, J. (2023). Symbols of Care. Panel presentation at APA Division 32, 16th Annual Conference for the Society of Humanistic Psychology, Conference theme: Community. Collaboration. Embodiment: Cultivating an Ethic of Radical Hospitality in Treacherous Times. March 16-19, 2023.

Chandler, A. (2023). Beyond the Cartesian Divide. Panel presentation at APA Division 32, 16th Annual Conference for the Society of Humanistic Psychology, Conference theme: Community. Collaboration. Embodiment: Cultivating an Ethic of Radical Hospitality in Treacherous Times. March 16-19, 2023.

Spencer, D. (2023). Evolving Racial Trauma Contexts in Future DSM Considerations. Panel presentation at APA Division 32, 16th Annual Conference for the Society of Humanistic Psychology, Conference theme: Community. Collaboration. Embodiment: Cultivating an Ethic of Radical Hospitality in Treacherous Times. March 16-19, 2023.

Depth Psychology with Specialization in Integrative Therapy and Healing Practices

Brewster, F. (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. Presentation at Spirituality & Psychotherapy Conference, March 24, 2023.

Brewster, F. (2023). Workshop in collaboration with other professionals: The City of Bones: Spectral Presences as Healthers of Cultural Complexes. Continuing Education Workshop at The C.G. Jung Institute of San Francisco, March 18-19, 2023.

Depth Psychology with Specialization in Jungian Psychology and Archetypal Studies

Slater, G. (2024). Jung vs borg: Finding the deeply human in a posthuman age. Winter Press.

Le Grice, K. (2023). The lion will become man: Alchemy and the dark spirit in nature—A personal encounter. Chiron Publications.

Slater, G. (2023). Virtual Lecture American Gun Violence–A Jungian Depth Psychological View. Presentation at the Nashville Jung Group, April 14, 2023.

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

Slater, G. (Forthcoming). Frontierism and the American Psyche. In I. Burnett (Ed.), Re-Visioning the American Psyche: Jungian, Archetypal, and Mythological Reflections. Routledge.

Le Grice, K. (2023). The Colloquy of the Gods: Astrology as Cosmic Synchronicity. Lecture for the Jungian Mystery School (South Africa) 12-week series on synchronicity.

Le Grice, K. (2023).  The Lion will become man: Alchemy and the dark spirit in nature—A personal encounter. Asheville, NC: Chiron Publications.

Le Grice, K. (2023). Archetypal astrology and alchemy as a guide to psychospiritual transformation. International School of Analytical Psychology in Zurich, Switzerland: Zurich Lecture Series, held September 27-28, 2023.

Rossi, S. (August 19, 2023). The Kore Archetype Public Lecture. Lecture at Jung Society of Atlanta.

Rossi, S. (July 17, 2023). In Ananke’s Lap: Necessity and Grace Public Lecture. Lecture at New York Center for Jungian Studies: Jung on the Hudson.

Mythological Studies

Merton, T. (2024). Thomas Merton in California: The redwoods conferences and letters (D. Odorisio, Ed.). Liturgical Press.

Gardner, J. (2023). Goddesses. In J. Gardner (Ed). A Skeleton Key Study Guide, Joseph Campbell Foundation.

Gardner, J. Ed. (2023). A Skeleton Key Study Guide, Joseph Campbell Foundation, 2023.

Mody, M. (2023). Arts-based Practices: Research and Transformation in the Academy. Transformative Power of Art Journal, Volume 1.

Mody, M. (2023). Bright Parallel. Copper Coin, 2023.

Mody, M. (2023). When Yoginis Appear with Animals: Animistic Relational Elements and the Non-Dual Matrix. Tarka Journal, Issue 7.

Lord-Kambitsch, E. Ed. (2023). Western Yoga: A Field Report on Desertion and Deliverance. Bottlecap Press.

Lord-Kambitsch, E. (2023). Ovid and Ecopsychology, presented at the Classical Association Conference. Cambridge, UK. April 22, 2023.

Lord-Kambitsch, E. (2023). A Siren’s Odyssey of Self-Becoming in the Book of Delights. Presented at the Association for the Study of Women and Mythology Conference. Seneca Falls, NY, May 5-6, 2023.

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

Odorisio, D. Ed (2023). A New Gnosis: Comic Books, Comparative Mythology, and Depth Psychology. Palgrave Macmillan, 2023.

Odorisio, D. Ed (2023).  “Not Drugs, but Night”: Thomas Merton on LSD and the Psychology of Religious Experience, presented at the American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting. San Antonio, TX. Nov. 18-21, 2023.

Odorisio, D. Ed (Forthcoming).  Thomas Merton in California: The Redwoods Conferences and Letters. Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press.

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

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

Deimler, D. Monograph on Nor Hall and the women of archetypal psychology (Forthcoming).

Deimler, D. (2023). 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), Los Angeles, March 1, 2023.

Deimler, D. (2023). 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.

Mahaffey, P. (2023). Presentation at the 18th General Meeting of the International Thomas Merton Society, South Bend, IN. June 22-25, 2023