Susan E. Schwartz, Ph.D. is a Jungian analyst and clinical psychologist in Paradise Valley, Arizona.
She holds a master’s degree in social work from Boston University, and a Diploma in Analytical Psychology from the C.G. Jung Institute Zürich. After completing her analytic training, she returned to the United States and obtained a Ph.D. in clinical psychology from The Union Institute.
Dr. Schwartz has taught developing Jung groups for many years in Poland and South Africa with 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.
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, and “Narcissism: Psychological Oneness Excluding Love of the Other” in Vienna in 2019.
Dr. Schwartz has written several journal articles and book chapters on fathers and daughters, the puella archetype, and Sylvia Plath. 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 is the co-author of two books – 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 new book, The Absent Father Effect on Daughters: Father Desire, Father Wounds, will be released later this month and it is the subject of our talk today.
This interview was recorded on Wednesday, November 11, 2020. It’s 01:06:20 long and 59.6 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 Podcasts, TuneIn, Spotify, iHeartRadio, and on Amazon Music. And it’s now available on our YouTube channel.
SHOW NOTES
Speaking of Jung: Ep. 40 Our first episode with Dr. Schwartz, recorded on Jan. 17, 2019
The Absent Father Effect on Daughters: Father Desire, Father Wounds by Susan E. Schwartz, Ph.D., Routledge, Nov. 20, 2020
The Dead Mother: The Work of André Green Edited by Gregorio Kohon
“Self creation and the limitless void of dissociation: The ‘as if’ personality” by Hester McFarland Solomon, Journal of Analytical Psychology, 49(5): 635–656
The Self in Transformation by Hester McFarland Solomon, Jungian analyst
Narcissism & Character Transformation: The Psychology of Narcissistic Character Disorders by Nathan Schwartz-Salant, Ph.D., Jungian analyst
Strangers to Ourselves by Julia Kristeva
The Collected Poems of Sylvia Plath (Includes “Daddy”)
ADDITIONAL LINKS
Susan Schwartz, Ph.D. Official website
Sexual Obsessions Excluding the Other Upcoming talk at the Phoenix Friends of C.G. Jung, May 8, 2021
Facing Multiplicity: Psyche, Nature, Culture Proceedings of the IAAP Congress in Montreal, 2010 (also available in Kindle)
Anima Mundi in Transition: Cultural, Clinical & Professional Challenges Proceedings of the IAAP Congress in Kyoto, 2016 (also available in Kindle)
Encountering the Other: Within Us, Between Us & in the World Proceedings of the IAAP Congress in Vienna, 2019 (The print edition of this book contains only the plenary sessions; the breakout sessions appear only in the e-book version.)