Stanton Marlan, Ph.D. is a Jungian analyst and clinical psychologist in private practice in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and an adjunct Clinical Professor of Psychology at Duquesne University.
After graduating from the prestigious Bard College in New York, he was encouraged by Timothy Leary to attend the University of Hawai’i where he earned a master’s degree in Asian philosophy, specializing in Buddhism. He then went on to the progressive New School for Social Research in New York City, earning a master’s degree in psychology and completed his doctoral work in clinical psychology at Duquesne University where he recently obtained a further doctorate in philosophy.
He began his training as a Jungian analyst at the C.G. Jung Institute of New York, where he studied with Drs. Edward F. Edinger and Edward Whitmont. He later moved to Pittsburgh where he completed his training with the Inter-Regional Society of Jungian Analysts in 1980.
He is the founder of the C.G. Jung Institute Analytic Training Program of Pittsburgh and the co-founder and current president of the Pittsburgh Society of Jungian Analysts. Currently, he works as a training and supervising analyst with the Inter-Regional group. He is also past president and director of The American Board and Academy of Psychoanalysis.
In 2003, he delivered the 13th annual Fay Lecture Series at the Jung Center Houston. It was later published as the book, The Black Sun: The Alchemy & Art of Darkness. The founder of Archetypal Psychology, world-renowned Jungian analyst Dr. James Hillman, said of the book that “Since Jung first opened the obscurities of alchemy to psychological insight, no one has done a book as thorough, as rich, and as significant as this astounding work by Stanton Marlan.” Dr. Marlan is the editor of Archetypal Psychologies: Reflections in Honor of James Hillman, inspired by a conference in honor of Dr. Hillman’s 80th birthday. The book includes contributions by noted Jungian analyst Wolfgang Giegerich and philosopher Edward S. Casey. It is said to represent the broadest published application of Archetypal Psychology to date.
He has lectured widely at conferences around the world, including the first International Conference on Jungian Analysis and Chinese Culture in Guangzhou, China and the IAAP International Congresses in Cambridge and Barcelona. He was a keynote speaker for the Guild of Pastoral Psychology held at Oxford University and has taught at the C.G. Jung Institute Zürich and other Jungian institutes and universities.
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SHOW NOTES
The Black Sun: The Alchemy & Art of Darkness by Stanton Marlan
The Red Book: Liber Novus by C.G. Jung, with an Introduction by Sonu Shamdasani
Timothy Leary’s Hitchcock Estate in Millbrook, New York, May Be the State’s Strangest Home Architectural Digest, July 2017
Robert Baker Aitken University of Hawai’i at Mānoa
Giuseppe Tucci Wikipedia page
The Psychedelic Experience: A Manual Based on the Tibetan Book of the Dead by Timothy Leary, Ralph Metzner & Richard Alpert
The Tibetan Book of the Great Liberation with a Commentary by C.G. Jung
Psychology & Religion: West & East Vol. 11 of the Collected Works of C.G. Jung; includes commentaries on The Tibetan Book of the Dead and the Tibetan Book of the Great Liberation
Tibetan Buddhist Learning Center Founded by Geshe Ngawang Wangyal in Washington, New Jersey
The Secret of the Golden Flower with a Commentary by C.G. Jung
Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu
LSD Psychotherapy: The Healing Potential Potential of Psychedelic Medicine by Stanislav Grof
Confrontation with the Unconscious: Jungian Depth Psychology & Psychedelic Experience by Scott J. Hill
Re-Visioning Psychology by James Hillman
The Handbook of Jungian Psychology: Theory, Practice & Applications by Renos K. Papadopoulos; includes the chapter, “Alchemy,” by Stanton Marlan
Reading the Red Book: An Interpretive Guide to C.G. Jung’s Liber Novus by Sanford L. Drob; Foreword by Stanton Marlan
Memories, Dreams, Reflections by C.G. Jung & Aniela Jaffé
The Original Protocols for Memories, Dreams, Reflections Project by The Philemon Foundation (the subject of a future episode)
From the Black Sun to the Philosophers’ Stone by Stanton Marlan, Spring Journal #74: Alchemy, 2006
Being & Time by Martin Heidegger
Transforming Depression: Healing the Soul Through Creativity by David H. Rosen (“egocide”)
Anatomy of the Psyche: Alchemical Symbolism in Psychotherapy by Edward F. Edinger
The Nature of Hysteria by Niel Micklem
Jacques Derrida Amazon Author Page
Sanford L. Drob Amazon Author Page
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The Black Madonna of Einsiedeln: An Ancient Image for Our Present Time by Fred Gustafson (See Ep. 10)
William Henry Investigative mythologist
Wewelsburg Castle Büren, Germany
Great American Eclipse Graphics showing future eclipses in the 21st century
The James Hillman Symposium The Dallas Institute of Humanities & Culture
For his ongoing polemics with Wolfgang Giegerich, please see Dr. Marlan’s Wikipedia page for references
ADDITIONAL LINKS
How & Why We Still Read Jung: Personal & Professional Reflections Includes, “Jung & Alchemy: A Daimonic Reading,” by Stanton Marlan
The Black Sun: The Alchemy & Art of Darkness Audible edition
The Encyclopedia of Psychology & Religion Co-edited by Stanton Marlan
Fire in the Stone: The Alchemy of Desire Edited by Stanton Marlan
Black Sun: Nigredo & the Philosopher’s Stone with Stanton Marlan YouTube video of Dr. Marlan in his magnificent home library
Clinical Professor of Psychology at Duquesne University
Pittsburgh Society of Jungian Analysts