James Hollis, Ph.D. is a Jungian analyst, author, and lecturer in private practice in Washington, D.C.
He holds a doctorate in literature from Drew University (Madison, New Jersey) and taught humanities and the philosophic traditions of cultures for 26 years before training as a Jungian analyst at the C.G. Jung Institute Zürich.
Dr. Hollis is the co-founder and first director of training of the Philadelphia Jung Institute and served for many years as Executive Director of the C.G. Jung Educational Center in Houston. In 2014, he relocated to D.C. to become the Executive Director of the Jung Society of Washington and is now a member of their Board of Directors.
He also served as a senior training analyst for the Inter-Regional Society of Jungian Analysts and as Vice President Emeritus of the Philemon Foundation, a group of scholars, board members, and donors who share the mandate to prepare the unpublished works of C.G. Jung.
His first book on Jungian psychology was The Middle Passage, published by Inner City Books in 1993. And his most recent, A Life of Meaning: Relocating Your Center of Spiritual Gravity, published by Sounds True in 2023.
I first met Dr. Hollis in 2001 at his lecture, Relationships: The Psychodynamics of Self and Other, for the C.G. Jung Association of Central Ohio. His books inspired my interest in Jung and I was fortunate to be able to attend his lectures in Dallas and Chicago over the next two decades. He was also one of my analyst’s training analysts.
EPISODES
Episode 25 ~ May 17, 2017 ~ Why Good People Do Bad Things: Understanding Our Darker Selves
Episode 27 ~ Aug. 16, 2017 ~ The Eden Project: In Search of the Magical Other
Episode 32 ~ Mar. 21, 2018 ~ Living an Examined Life: Wisdom for the Second Half of the Journey
Episode 65 ~ Jun. 23, 2020 ~ Living Between Worlds: Finding Personal Resilience in Changing Times
Episode 79 ~ Feb. 5, 2021 ~ Prisms: Reflections on This Journey We Call Life
Episode 100 ~ Jan. 3, 2022 ~ The Broken Mirror: Refracted Visions of Ourselves
Episode 129 ~ Nov. 20, 2023 ~ A Life of Meaning: Relocating Your Center of Spiritual Gravity
VIDEO COURSES
Jung Society of Washington:
Creating a Life: Living in the Intersection of Fate, Character and Choice
Living an Examined Life: 21 Strategies for a Richer Journey
The Interpretation of Dreams: Dreams as a Path to Personal Authority
Tracking the Gods: The Movement of Archetypal Powers in Our Time
Quartet: Reflections on Life, Death, and the Troubles In-Between
Soul at Play:
Nostalgia & Longing for Home ~ Free mini course!
BOOKS
A Life of Meaning: Relocating Your Center of Spiritual Gravity Sounds True, 2023
Creating a Life: Finding Your Individual Path Inner City Books, 2001
Finding Meaning in the Second Half of Life: How to Finally, Really Grow Up Gotham Books, 2005
Harold Pinter: The Poetics of Silence Southern Illinois University Press, 1970
Hauntings: Dispelling the Ghosts Who Run Our Lives Chiron Publications, 2013
Living an Examined Life: Wisdom for the Second Half of the Journey Sounds True, 2018
Living Between Worlds: Finding Personal Resilience in Changing Times Sounds True, 2020
Mythologems: Incarnations of the Invisible World Inner City Books, 2004
On This Journey We Call Our Life: Living the Questions Inner City Books, 2003
Prisms: Reflections on This Journey We Call Life Chiron Publications, 2021
Swamplands of the Soul: New Life in Dismal Places Inner City Books, 1996
The Archetypal Imagination Texas A&M University Press, 2000 (free PDF)
The Broken Mirror: Refracted Visions of Ourselves Chiron Publications, 2022
The Eden Project: In Search of the Magical Other Inner City Books, 1998
The Middle Passage: From Misery to Meaning in Midlife Inner City Books, 1993
Tracking the Gods: The Place of Myth in Modern Life Inner City Books, 1995
Under Saturn’s Shadow: The Wounding and Healing of Men Inner City Books, 1994
What Matters Most: Living a More Considered Life Gotham Books, 2009
Why Good People Do Bad Things: Understanding Our Darker Selves Gotham Books, 2007
AUDIOBOOKS
The Eden Project: In Search of the Magical Other Inner City Books, 2023
Under Saturn’s Shadow: The Wounding and Healing of Men Inner City Books, 2023
Read by James Hollis:
A Life of Meaning: Exploring Our Deepest Questions & Motivations Sounds True, 2020
Through the Dark Wood: Finding Meaning in the Second Half of Life Sounds True, 2014
FILMS
Soulheal A Film by José Enrique Pardo featuring Jungian analysts James Hollis and Nancy Swift-Furlotti
Summons of the Soul For sale on Vimeo
INTERVIEWS
Variety Magazine Jul. 3, 2020
Spirituality & Health Jun. 18, 2020
The Journal of Analytical Psychology Sept. 25, 2023
LECTURE SCHEDULE
Visit Dr. Hollis’s official website to see his yearly online lecture schedule