Susan E. Schwartz, Ph.D. is a Jungian analyst and clinical psychologist in private practice in Paradise Valley, Arizona.
She holds a master’s degree in social work from Boston University and a doctorate in clinical psychology from The Union Institute. She trained as a Jungian analyst at the C.G. Jung Institute Zürich where she earned a Diploma in Analytical Psychology in 1986.
Dr. Schwartz is a member of the International Association of Analytical Psychology and the American Psychological Association. For many years, she has been teaching developing Jung groups in Poland and South Africa for the International Association of Jungian Analysts, and has been a course instructor at both the Jung Institute and the International School of Analytical Psychology in Zürich.
Dr. Schwartz has written several journal articles and book chapters on fathers and daughters and on the puella archetype. In 2018, she was nominated for the Gradiva Award for Best Article by the National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis for “The Dead Father Effect on the Psyche of a Daughter—Sylvia Plath.”
She has presented her work at various congresses of the IAAP including “The ‘Dead Mother’ Effect on a Daughter” in Montreal in 2010, “Narcissism, Aging, Anima Mundi: Paradox & Necessity” in Kyoto in 2016, “Narcissism: Psychological Oneness Excluding Love of the Other” in Vienna in 2019, and most recently “Who Am I, Really?” in Buenos Aires in 2022. You can learn more about these presentations in our first interview together in Episode 40.
Dr. Schwartz is the co-author of Couples at the Crossroads: Five Steps to Finding Your Way Back to Love (with Dr. Daniela Roher), and Aging & Becoming: A Reflective Enquiry (with Susan Scott).
Her first book, The Absent Father Effect on Daughters: Father Desire, Father Wounds, was published by Routledge in 2020, and is the subject of our second interview together in Episode 76. Her new book, Imposter Syndrome & the ‘As-If’ Personality in Analytical Psychology: The Fragility of Self, is being released by Routledge later this month and is the subject of our talk today.
This interview was recorded on Wednesday, September 13, 2023. It’s 01:00:16 long and 54.4 MB. You can listen to it right here in your browser (click the play button in the bar below) or download it directly to your computer. Watch the video edition on our YouTube channel.
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SHOW NOTES
Susan Schwartz, Ph.D. Official website
Episode 40 Susan Schwartz on the puella, daughters and fathers, aging, and narcissism
Episode 76 Susan Schwartz on the Absent Father Effect on Daughters
Father Abandonment through the Lens of a Fairytale Online video course with Susan Schwartz offered by Soul at Play
Helene Deutsch Books available from Amazon
Hester Solomon Books available from Amazon
The Golden Bachelor ABC Television
The Trial by Franz Kafka
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
Narcissism & Character Transformation: The Psychology of Narcissistic Character Disorders by Nathan Schwartz-Salant, Ph.D., Jungian analyst
Echo’s Subtle Body: Contributions to an Archetypal Psychology by Patricia Berry, Ph.D., Jungian analyst
The Work of Mourning by Jacques Derrida
The Dead Mother: The Work of André Green Edited by Gregorio Kohon
BOOKS
Imposter Syndrome & the ‘As-If’ Personality in Analytical Psychology: The Fragility of Self
The Absent Father Effect on Daughters: Father Desire, Father Wounds
Couples at the Crossroads: Five Steps to Finding Your Way Back to Love (co-author with Dr. Daniela Roher)
Aging & Becoming: A Reflective Enquiry (co-author with Susan Scott)