Brooke - Pathways into the Jungian world : phenomenology and analytical psychology

Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,
the World offers itself to your imagination, calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting
over and over announcing your place
in the family of things,

Mary Oliver (1986) Dream Work,
New York: Grove Atlantic Inc.

Roger Brooke, Ph.D., is Professor of Psychology and Director of Training in Clinical Psychology at Duquesne University, Pittsburgh. Since the start of his undergraduate training at the University of Cape Town he has been steeped in the issue of Jungs relationship to existential phenomenology. His doctoral dissertation at Rhodes University, South Africa, was worked into the book, Jung andPhenomenology (Routledge 1991). He is in private practice in Pittsburgh, where he is also Adjunct Faculty at The C.G.Jung Institute Analyst Training Program in Pittsburgh. As well as publishing in the areas of analytical psychology and phenomenology, he has written several papers on psychotherapeutic issues.

Lionel Corbett, MD, trained in medicine and psychiatry in Britain, and graduated from the C.G.Jung Institute of Chicago. He is a Professor of Depth Psychology at Pacifica Graduate Institute in Santa Barbara, California. He is the author of numerous articles in analytical psychology, and a recent book, The Religious Function of the Psyche (Routledge 1998).

Veronica Goodchild, Ph.D., studied theology and philosophy at London University in England, and completed her Masters in Clinical Social Work at Columbia University, New York. She practiced as a Jungian psychotherapist for more than fifteen years, and recently completed her doctoral degree in Clinical Depth Psychology at Pacifica Graduate Institute. She has taught Jungian psychology extensively on the East coast of the USA, and in South Africa at Rhodes University in 1995. She is married to Robert Romanyshyn, and they are the parents of four children.

John Ryan Haule, Ph.D., is a certified psychoanalyst, and training analyst in the New England Society of Jungian Analysts, of which he is a past President. Since his dissertation in the area of Jungian psychology and phenomenology at Temple University, he has many publications to his credit, including several books. Divine Madness, has been published also in German.

David Michael Levin, Ph.D., is Professor of Philosophy at Northwestern University, Illinois. He is internationally acclaimed for his pioneering investigations in phenomenology, and is especially appreciated for his attempts to deepen philosophical phenomenology with insights from depth psychology. He has had a long-standing interest in Jungian psychology, in particular. Of his many publications, which include The Listening Self and The Opening of Vision, perhaps his best-known is The Bodys Recollection of Being: Phenomenologicalpsychology and the deconstruction of nihilism (Routledge 1985).

Stanton Marlan, Ph.D., is a Jungian psychoanalyst in private practice at the Pittsburgh Center for Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, and is Director of the C.G.Jung Institute Analyst Training Program of Pittsburgh. He is a training and supervising analyst for the Inter-regional Society of Jungian Analysts. He holds a Diplomate in Clinical Psychology from the American Board of Professional Psychology, and a Diplomate in Psychoanalysis from the American Board of Psychoanalysis in Psychology, Inc. His current and long-standing interests include the psychology of dreams, post-modernism, and archetypal psychology. He has published a number of articles on Jungian psychology, and most recently has edited and written critical introductions to two books: the first a reprinting of classic essays by Ernest Jones, C.G.Jung, and James Hillman, Salt and the Alchemical Soul, the second, Fire in the Stone: thealchemy of desire (Chiron 1997). Among his many responsibilities, he has recently been invited to teach at the Pacifica Graduate Institute in California.

Bertha Mook, Ph.D., is Professor of Psychology at the University of Ottawa, Canada, where she is especially involved in the doctoral and post-doctoral training in child psychopathology and psychotherapy. Her Ph.D. was in Child Clinical Psychology, but her clinical training included experience in South Africa, Holland and the United Kingdom. She is a scholar known for her rigour, and is a pioneer in phenomenology and hermeneutics, which she has systematically extended into the areas of family therapy and play therapy. Many of her recent publications have been exploring the (creative) tensions between descriptive understanding and hermeneutical interpretation. These include, Imaginative play in child psychotherapy: the relevance of Merleau-Pontys thought, (in D.Olkowski and J.Morley (eds):