James Hollis

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of the Philemon Foundation, a group of scholars, board members, and donors who share the mandate to prepare the unpublished works of C.G. Jung.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!

Romance, Love, & the Psyche’s Peculiar Engines

Re-Collections of Childhood Past


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

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