Donald Kalsched, Ph.D. | Inner & Outer Democracy | Speaking of Jung #64

Jungian analyst and clinical psychologist Donald Kalsched, Ph.D. joins us from Santa Fe, New Mexico to discuss his essay, "Wresting with Our Angles: Inner and Outer Democracy in America Under the Shadow of Donald Trump," in the new book, Cultural Complexes and the Soul of America: Myth, Psyche, & Politics (Affiliate Link: amzn.to/3eWKXCQ), published last week by Routledge.
After completing undergraduate work in philosophy at the University of Wisconsin, he attended the Union Theological Seminary in New York City where he earned a Master of Divinity, specializing in Psychiatry and Religion. His graduate thesis was on Hermann Hesse’s Demian as an example of the individuation process.
He then went on to New York’s Fordham University where he earned a Ph.D. in clinical psychology, and later completed the training program in Analytical Psychology at the C.G. Jung Institute of New York where his diploma thesis was on narcissism and the search for interiority. He worked as a faculty member and supervisor of analytic training candidates at both the New York Association of Analytical Psychology and the Jung Institute, and served on the board of the C.G. Jung Foundation and as president of the newly formed national board of the Archive for Research in Archetypal Symbolism (ARAS).
In 1986, he became head of the Institute for Depth Psychology at Wainwright House in Rye, New York where he started the Professional Enrichment Program in Jungian Theory and Practice. He later joined the Westchester Institute for Training in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy in Bedford Hills where he worked as a training and supervising analyst.
In 2007, Dr. Kalsched relocated to Albuquerque where he became an adjunct assistant professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of New Mexico School of Medicine. In 2014, he moved to Santa Fe where he became a member of the C.G. Jung Institute of Santa Fe and a training analyst with the Inter-Regional Society of Jungian Analysts. He teaches and lectures nationally and internationally on the subject of early trauma and its treatment.
He is the author of two widely popular books, The Inner World of Trauma: Archetypal Defenses of the Personal Spirit, published in 1996, and Trauma & the Soul: A Psycho-spiritual Approach to Human Development & Its Interruption, published in 2013. Last week, his essay “Wrestling with Our Angels: Inner & Outer Democracy in America Under the Shadow of Donald Trump” was published in the book, Cultural Complexes & the Soul of America: Myth, Psyche, & Politics, edited by Dr. Thomas Singer, and it is the subject of our talk today.
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