Morgan Stebbins, D.Min., is a Jungian psychoanalyst, supervising analyst, faculty member, and former president and director of training at the Jungian Psychoanalytic Association in New York City.
He began Zen training at the San Francisco Zen Center where he was a monastic resident, and went on to attend the University of California Berkeley graduating with an honors thesis on cult phenomena in modern American culture. He went on to earn a master’s degree in social work from Columbia University and later attended the Union Theological Seminary earning a Master of Divinity with a thesis on Jacques Lacan and Carl Jung titled “The Structure of the Unconscious in Image and Word.”
He trained as a Jungian psychoanalyst with the C.G. Jung Institute of New York graduating with a thesis on The Ten Commandments as a path to individuation. He also earned a doctorate in Religious Studies and Hermeneutics from the New York Theological Seminary with a thesis on the hermeneutics of psychological translation.
Dr. Stebbins has has lived Europe, India, South Africa, and the United States studying and practicing different forms of religion, academia, and therapeutic modalities in between stints as a wilderness guide, medical technician, bike racer, and Olympian. He has written on symbol formation, dreams, the role of mindfulness in analysis, the meaning of compulsion, and the archetypal psychology of Buddhist sutras and precepts. He is currently a supervising analyst and faculty member at the New York-based Jungian Psychoanalytic Association, where he formerly served as the Director of Training. He maintains a private practice in Cold Spring, New York, where he also has a sand tray practice, and is available online.
His first book, A Jungian Approach to Transforming Compulsion: A Clinical and Symbolic Guide to OCD, was published on April 1st by Routledge Mental Health. Next week, he will be presenting at this year’s annual Jung in Ireland seminar, Facing Mortality and the Unexpected, held in County Kilkenny, Ireland. His presentations include, “Learning from the Tibetan Book of the Dead: Can We Live Before We Die?,” “Working Through the Bardos of Everyday Life,” and “Feeding Your Demons: What Do They Eat Anyway?”
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A Jungian Approach to Transforming Compulsion: A Clinical and Symbolic Guide to OCD by Morgan Stebbins (Routledge, 2026)
Jungian Psychoanalytic Association New York, New York
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Mysterium Coniunctionis Vol. 14 of the Collected Works of C.G. Jung
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The Structure and Dynamics of the Psyche Vol. 8 of the Collected Works of C.G. Jung
Jung in Ireland 2026 Seminar April 21-28, 2026 in County Kilkenny, Ireland; Dr. Stebbins will be presenting “Learning from the Tibetan Book of the Dead: Can We Live Before We Die?,” “Working Through the Bardos of Everyday Life,” and “Feeding Your Demons: What Do They Eat Anyway?”
The Tibetan Book of the Dead with a psychological commentary by C.G. Jung
VIDEOS
The Red Book Dialogues with Billy Corgan and Morgan Stebbins Rubin Museum of Art, Nov. 14, 2009
Richard C. Morais & Morgan Stebbins Strand Book Store, New York City, Jul. 11, 2013
Morgan Stebbins Teleconference on Synchronicity Jungian Psychoanalytic Association, May 11, 2022
Time and No Time in Physics and Jungian Theory Panel discussion with Harald Atmanspacher (Ep. 116), Morgan Stebbins (Ep. 158), and Angeliki Yiassemides (Ep. 155); Jungian Psychoanalytic Association, Oct. 22, 2015