FREDERICK DAVID ABRAHAM, Ph.D.has held academic positions at the University of California-Los Angeles, San Diego, and Irvine, and the University of Vermont. He is a pioneer and leader in the field of dynamical systems theory and chaos research. He has written extensively on the applications of dynamical systems theory to brain and behavior. He is co-author of A Visual Introduction to Dynamical Systems Theory for Psychology.
MICHAEL CONFORTI, Ph.D. is a pioneer in the field of matter-psyche studies. He is Founder and President of the Assisi Institute, a Jungian analyst, and has taught at the C.G. Jung Institute-Boston, and the C.G. Jung Foundation of New York. Dr. Conforti lectures widely in the U.S. and abroad, including in Italy, Denmark, the Caribbean, Canada, Venezuela, and at the C.G. Jung Institute-Zurich. In addition to his clinical practice, he consults to organizations including the film industry, helping to identify archetypal patterns. He is the author of Field, Form and Fate and Threshold Experiences: The Archetype of Beginnings.
PAMELA DONLEAVY, J.D. is a Jungian Analyst in private practice in Arlington, MA. She is the past President of the New England Society of Jungian Analysts, is on the Board of Directors of the National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis, and is on the faculty of the C.G. Jung Institute – Boston, and the Assisi Institute in Vermont. Pamela lectures widely, is the author of several articles in Jungian journals, and has a book coming out in 2008 with co-author Ann Shearer titled Themis: Ancient Myth, Modern Healing, published by Routledge.
BRIAN GOODWIN, Ph.D. is a biologist on the faculty of Schumacher College, and has also held research and teaching positions at MIT, the University of Sussex, and the Open University, UK. He is author of How the Leopard Changed Its Spots: The Evolution of Complexity and Nature’s Due: Healing Our Fragmented Culture. He is interested in developing a science to address issues of health and quality of life, as well as promoting the reunion of the arts and humanities with the sciences.
SUSANNAH HESCHEL, Ph.D. is the Eli Black Professor of Jewish Studies at Dartmouth College. Her numerous publications include, Abraham Geiger and the Jewish Jesus, which won a National Jewish book Award and Germany’s Geiger Prize, and a forthcoming book, The Aryan Jesus: Christians, Nazis and the Bible. She has held numerous visiting professorships, and also serves on the Academic Advisory Committee of the Research Center of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.
JEAN HOUSTON, Ph.D. is a philosopher and researcher in Human Capacities, and one of the foremost visionaries of our time. One of the principal founders of the Human Potential Movement, she is co-founder of The Foundation for Mind-Research and founder of the Mystery School, a program of cross-cultural, mythic and spiritual studies. She is the author of 26 books, including The Possible Human and A Passion for the Possible. Dr. Houston serves as Senior Advisor the United Nations Development Program, training leaders in the new field of Social Artistry.
RICHARD KRADIN, M.D. is a Jungian analyst, a practicing medical doctor and researcher at the Massachusetts General Hospital, and faculty at Harvard Medical School. He recently served as research director of the Mind/Body Medical Institute at the Beth-Israel Deaconess Medical Center. He is the author of more than 200 articles and textbooks, including The Herald Dream and The Placebo Response and the Power of Unconscious Healing.
DAVID ROTTMAN, M.A. has written for many local and national publications, including National Business Employment Weekly. He is Distinguished Member of the Board of Directors of the C.G. Jung Foundation of New York, Ex Officio, and a member of their Continuing Education faculty. He has taught many courses, including “The Persona: Archetype of Stressful Adaptation,” and “Power in Everyday Life: At Work and in Relationship.” He is also on the faculty of the Assisi Institute.
DENNIS PATRICK SLATTERY, Ph.D. is on the faculty of Pacifica Graduate Institute, and has taught for over 37 years. He is the author of over 200 articles and book reviews, and has written Grace in the Desert: Awakening to the Gifts of Monastic Life, and Depth Psychology: Meditations in the Field. His work focuses on the confluence of myth, culture, spirit, soul and politics. He is also a Fellow at the Dallas Institute for Humanities and Culture.
MORGAN STEBBINS, M.Div., LMSW is a Jungian analyst and Director of Training of the Jungian Psychoanalytic Association, where he has helped develop their unique learning community model of analytic training. He is on the faculty of the C.G. Jung Foundation of New York, and is book review editor for Spring. His areas of study include Lacan and Jung, Aion: Creative Time, Zen and Tibetan Buddhism, Archetypal Patterns in the Bible, and the application of evolutionary psychology to Jungian pattern analysis.