Donald Kalsched, Ph.D. is a Jungian analyst and clinical psychologist in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
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. And 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.
This interview was recorded on Wednesday, June 10, 2020. It’s 59:08 long and 55.7 MB. You can listen to it right here in your browser or download it directly to your computer. It’s also available on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Google Play, TuneIn, Spotify, and iHeartRadio. This episode is now available on our YouTube channel.
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SHOW NOTES
C.G. Jung Speaking: Interviews & Encounters Includes a transcription of Jung’s “Face to Face” interview with the BBC
Final Contributions to the Problems & Methods of Psycho-analysis by Sándor Ferenczi
The Highly Sensitive Person: How to Thrive When the World Overwhelms You by Elaine N. Aron, Ph.D.
Planet of the Apes 1968 film
Planet of the Apes - Final scene Astronaut George Taylor discovers that he has landed on earth in the distant future when he comes across a destroyed statue of Liberty (2-minute clip on YouTube)
The Good & Evil Angels Struggling for Possession of a Child Postcard of the painting by William Blake
UPCOMING PRESENTATIONS
The Intersection of Collective vs. Personal Trauma in the Coronavirus Pandemic & Racial Violence in America Pacifica Graduate Institute webinar with Donald Kalsched, Ph.D., Jul. 24, 2020
Healing Trauma: The Lost & Recovered Soul in Depth Psychotherapy with Donald Kalsched, Ph.D., Hotel Santa Fe, Santa Fe, New Mexico, Oct. 27-31, 2021
BOOKS
The Inner World of Trauma: Archetypal Defenses of the Personal Spirit by Donald Kalsched, Ph.D.
Trauma & the Soul: A Psycho-Spiritual Approach to Human Development & Its Interruption by Donald Kalsched, Ph.D.
Jungian Perspectives on Clinical Supervision Edited by Jungian analyst Paul Kugler, Ph.D.; includes Dr. Kalsched’s essay, “Ecstasies and Agonies of Case Seminar Supervision”
America on the Couch: Psychological Perspectives on American Politics & Culture Edited by Pythia Peay; includes Dr. Kalsched’s essay, “Transforming Violence Through the Democratic Process – Within & Without”
Cultural Complexes & the Soul of America: Myth, Psyche, & Politics Edited by Thomas Singer, M.D., Jungian analyst; includes the chapter “Wrestling with Our Angles: Inner & Outer Democracy in America Under the Shadow of Donald Trump” by Donald Kalsched, Ph.D.