Glen Slater Awarded Best Theoretical Category for the 2025 International Association for Jungian Studies Book Awards
Glen Slater, , Ph.D. is Core Faculty and Associate Chair of Depth Psychology with Specialization in Jungian and Archetypal Studies program. He is also a featured instructor in the newly offered graduate certificate Depth Psychology in the 21st Century: An Introductory Graduate Certificate to Jungian, Post Jungian and Neo-Jungian Studies
The International Association for Jungian Studies (IAJS) recognized Jung Vs Borg: Finding the Deeply Human in a Posthuman Age by Glen Slater, PhD in the category of Best Theoretical as the winner for its 2025 Book Awards.
The news was recently announced by Erik Goodwyn, MD, co-editor-in-chief and board member at IAJS and Awards Chair, Jon Mills PsyD, PhD, ABPP. Selected winners were chosen from a number of entries published in 2025 in the Categories: Best Applied, Best Theoretical, and Best Edited (for anthologies).
Jung vs. Borg contends that the industrial disruption of the outer world is being followed by a post-industrial disruption of the inner world. The shadow side of the online world as well as the impact of algorithms and AI on society and culture exemplify this disruption. Prominent plans to merge humans and machines, focused on the joining of minds and computers, are shown to be outgrowths of this phenomenon, which promises to alter the foundations of human existence. This perspective propels the book’s critical assessment of the posthuman movement and leads to a depth psychological encounter with the cyborg—an image of human-machine hybridization that stands at the vanishing point on today’s techno-scientific horizon.
I feel honored to receive the IAJS book award and am grateful for the acknowledgment of my work. Perhaps, timing played a part in this. Even though I worked on the book on and off for over a decade, it is in the last couple of years that the implications of AI and questions concerning where technology is taking us have begun to loom larger. The book makes the case that understanding the psyche will be crucial. Depth psychological perspectives will be needed to offset the reduction of everything to data and information and to counter the notion that minds and computers are essentially the same,” said Slater in response to the award.
To see the full list of winners visit: https://jungstudies.net/iajs-awards-program/.
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Glen Slater is Core Faculty and Associate Chair of Depth Psychology with Specialization in Jungian and Archetypal Studies program at Pacifica Graduate Institute. Slater studied psychology and comparative religion at The University of Sydney before coming to the United States in 1992 for doctoral work in clinical psychology. He has been teaching at Pacifica for over twenty years and is currently the Associate Chair of the Jungian and Archetypal Studies specialization. He also teaches in the Mythological Studies program. His publications have appeared in a number of Jungian journals and essay collections, and he edited and introduced the third volume of James Hillman’s Uniform Edition, Senex and Puer, as well as a collection of faculty writings, Varieties of Mythic Experience: Essays on Religion, Psyche and Culture. Beyond his work in Jungian and Archetypal Psychology, he writes on psyche and film as well as the psychology of technology. He lectures internationally in these areas of interest.
