JAMES HILLMAN (b. 1926 – d. 2011) was a pioneering psychologist whose imaginative psychology has entered cultural history, affecting lives and minds in a wide range of fields. He is considered the originator of . Hillman received his Ph.D. from the University of Zurich in 1959 where he studied with and held the first directorship at the C. G. Jung Institute until 1969. In 1970, he became the editor of SPRING JOURNAL, a publication dedicated to psychology, philosophy, mythology, arts, humanities, and cul- tural issues and to the advancement of Archetypal Psychology. Hillman returned to the United States to take the job of Dean of Graduate Studies at the University of Dallas after the first International Archetypal Conference was held there. Hillman, in 1978 along with Gail Thomas, Joanne Stroud, Robert Sardello, Louise Cowan, and Donald Cowan, co-founded The Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture in Dallas, Texas. The Uniform Edition of the Writings of is published by Spring Publications, Inc. in conjunction with The Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture. The body of his work comprises scholarly studies in several fields including psychology, philosophy, mythology, art, and cultural studies. For the creativity of his thinking, the author of A Terrible Love of War (2004), The Force of Character and the Lasting Life (1999), and ’s Code: In Search of Character and Calling (1996) was Alchemical on the New York Times best-seller list for nearly a year. Re-Visioning Psychology (1975), which was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, The of Analysis (1972), and Suicide and the Soul (1964) received many honors, including the Medal of the Presidency of the Italian Republic. He held distinguished lectureships at the Universities of Yale, Princeton, Chicago, and Syracuse, and his books have been translated into some twenty languages. sychology The influences shaping the core of Hillman’s work are not limited to . His ideas have P firm grounding in the classical Greek tradition and are also deeply influenced by Renaissance thought and , encompassing the contributions of psychologists, philosophers, poets, and alchemists. Hillman described his own line of thought as part of the lineage of , , , Vico, Ficino, Schelling, Coleridge, Dilthey, Freud, and Jung. Other influential authors in Hillman´s work are Keats, Bachelard, Corbin, Nietzsche, Paracelsus, and Shelley. Throughout his writings, Hillman criticized the literal, materialistic, and reductive perspectives that often dominate the psychological and cultural arenas. He insisted on giving its rightful place in psychol- ogy and culture, fundamentally through imagination, metaphor, art, and myth. That act he called soul-making, a term borrowed from Keats. He is recognized as one of the most important radical critics and innovators of contemporary culture.

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The Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture 2719 Routh Street | Dallas, Texas 75201 | P: 214 871-2440 | dallasinstitute.org Alchemical Psychology two hundred articles in books, magazines, newspapers and online journals. His titles include: The Idiot: Dostoevsky’s Fantastic Prince (1984); The Wounded Body: Remembering the Markings of Flesh (2000); Grace in the Desert: Awakening to the Gifts of Monastic Life (2003); Harvesting Dark- The 2016 James Hillman Symposium ness: Essays on Literature, Myth, Film and Culture (2006); with Glen Slater he coedited Varieties of Mythic Experience: Essays on Religion, Psyche and Culture (2008); with Jennifer Selig he co-edited Reimagining Education: Essays on Reviving the Soul of Learning (2009); Day-to-Day Dante: The Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture Exploring Personal Myth Through The Divine Comedy (2012); Creases in Culture: Essays Toward a Poetics of Depth; Our Daily Breach:Exploring Your Personal Myth Through Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick. He has also published six volumes of poetry and one novel. He offers (W)riting Retreats on personal mythology using the writings of and others to Jungian groups and organizations in the United States and Europe. Dear Attendees, Currently he is co-editing with Evans Lansing Smith a volume on the letters of Joseph Campbell. Joanne H. Stroud received her M.A. and Ph.D. in Psychology and Literature from the University of Dallas and lectures in Dallas, New York City, and . She is a Founding Fellow of the Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture, Director of Institute Publications, and Editor of the WELCOME to the 5th Annual James Hillman Symposium held here in Dallas. We are so glad that you will Gaston Bachelard Translation Series, which consists of seven works on elemental imagination written by the French twentieth-century philosopher join us as we celebrate the works of renowned archetypal psychologist and Founding Fellow of the Dallas Institute, of science. The 2002 Bachelard Symposium she chaired in Dallas, “Matter, Dream, and Thought,” attracted international attention. The series James Hillman. We, Drs. Gail Thomas, Robert Sardello, and I, assisted by Dr. Larry Allums as Director of the Institute, completion in 2011 was celebrated with a Bachelard Day on the 30th Anniversary of the Dallas Institute. She served on the Board of Overseers of Harvard University for 12 years and serves on the Boards of the University of Dallas and the Southwestern Medical Foundation currently. She has are engaged in keeping James Hillman’s valuable words alive in the world. By hosting these annual symposiums and taught literature and psychology and is author of: The Bonding of Will and Desire; the four-volume series Choose Your Element: Earth, Air, Fire and by producing a publication each year in the series Conversing with James Hillman, we seek to share Hillman’s wit and Water; Time Doesn’t Tick Anymore; Gaston Bachelard: An Elemental Reverie on the World’s Stuff; and Towers 2 Tall. wisdom with longtime friends as well as new ones, making our way, year-by-year, through his multivolume Uniform Natasha Stroud, Ph.D., served on the psychology faculty for the University for Humanistic Studies in Solano Beach, CA, and for the San Diego Uni- versity for Integrative Studies. In private practice in San Diego, she has lectured and written on the subject of psychology and Classical Chinese Med- Edition that the Dallas Institute co-publishes with Spring Publications. icine. Dr. Stroud taught Qi Gong for the Turning Point Crisis Center in Oceanside, CA. She has studied Chinese calligraphy for the past seven years. Rodney C. Teague, Ph.D., resides outside the town of Notasulga in rural, central Alabama with his wife Erin Leigh and three children. He was born Our subject this weekend is Alchemical Psychology, volume 5 of the Uniform Edition. In this original volume, Hillman and reared in central Oklahoma. As a child wandering the ranchland there, he discovered a stone-roofed “dugout” that was tucked into the prairie makes a study of the transformative processes suggested by the arcane alchemical processes that were adapted during land-run days, and which he considers his imaginal first home. For eighteen years preceding his current country-mouse experiment in in late life by Jung as a basis of understanding depth psychology. Hillman carries this idea forward, arguing that the Notasulga, Teague lived in Atlanta, Dallas, and Pittsburgh while earning a doctoral degree in Clinical Psychology from Duquesne University. While at Duquesne—and previously at the University of Dallas—he studied psychology as a human science from existential, phenomenological, and images and language of alchemy provide a much more valid, less abstract picture of human nature: instead of cold critical perspectives. He came to psychology initially through literature—through Faulkner, Dostoevsky, and Shakespeare viewed in light of a col- concepts, sensate images. By incorporating the aesthetic approach, alchemy teaches, in Hillman’s words, “with its lective (un)conscious, and he continues to make his way back to and through literature. Mentors at the University of Dallas, the Dallas Institute, and Duquesne University nurtured—and go on nurturing—this trajectory. Currently, his clinical work is with veterans who are diagnosed with colors, and minerals, its paraphernalia and enigmatic imagistic instructions . . . an aesthetic psychology.” mental illness, addictions, and who have had experiences of combat and other trauma. This work connects him to his late grandfathers, both decorated World War II veterans. It also connects him with the vast capacity of the human soul for suffering and resilience. Existential and narra- Following the symposium, we will again publish a compilation of written papers from this weekend in the third install- tive perspectives inform his work. ment of Conversing with James Hillman. If you have not yet read the first two volumes in the series,City & Soul and Gail Thomas, Ph.D., serves as President and CEO of The Trinity Trust Foundation in Dallas to remake the Trinity River Corridor. She was co-founder in 1980 of the Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture and served as its Director for seventeen years. Dr. Thomas’ life work has been the study Senex & Puer, I urge you to do so. They will enrich your understanding not only of Hillman’s psychology but also of our and transformation of cities. For over thirty years she has conducted seminars and conferences on cities and city life. She began in 1982 a series culture, its , and its . of conferences called “What Makes a City?”, attended by city planners, artists, scientists, poets, teachers, and business and civic leaders. She was instrumental in the creation of Pegasus Plaza in downtown Dallas and co-chaired the Dallas Millennium Project to restore Dallas’ icon, Pegasus, the Best regards, Flying Red Horse. For the Trinity project, her efforts helped inspire the philanthropic gifts for the design of Dallas’ two Santiago Calatrava bridges. She is currently seeking funds to build the Trinity Spine Trail from the Audubon Center in southern Dallas to White Rock Lake. Her book Healing Pandora: The Restoration of Hope and Abundancewas released in 2009. Her other books include: Stirrings of Culture, with Robert Sardello; Images of the Untouched, with Joanne Stroud; Imagining Dallas; and Pegasus, the Spirit of Cities. She has a book in progress entitledRecapturing the Soul Dr. Joanne H. Stroud of the City. Director, James Hillman Symposium and Institute Publications Tom Verner has been a psychologist, a university professor, and a professional magician for the past forty years. He was Director of the Transpersonal and Depth Psychology Program at Burlington College for 25 years. He is founder and president of Magicians Without Borders and for the last fifteen years has performed and taught magic in refugee camps, orphanages and homes for at-risk youth in thirty-five, often war-torn, countries around the world. PRESENTER BIOGRAPHIES James Hillman Symposium 2016

Alchemical Psychology FRIDAY 28 October

1:30 pm Doors Open Registration – Main House

Safron Rossi, Ph.D., is Associate Core Faculty at Pacifica Graduate Institute in the Jungian and Archetypal Studies M.A. and Ph.D. program, teaching 2:30 pm Symposium Welcome – Nancy Cain Marcus Conference Center courses on mythology, archetypal symbolism, and research. She has also been Curator and Executive Director at Opus Archives & Research Center, 2:45 pm Alchemy, Inc. : G. Kwame Scruggs, Andre McCray which holds the James Hillman manuscript collection, among others. Her writing and scholarly studies focus on Greek mythology, archetypal psychology, the western astrological tradition, goddess traditions, and feminist studies. Safron is editor of Joseph Campbell’sGoddesses: Mysteries 3:30 - 5:00 pm Session I : Dennis Slattery, Joanne H. Stroud, Rodney Teague of the Feminine Divine (2013) and has published articles in Jungian and Archetypal journals. Session Leader: Larry Allums Robert Sardello, Ph.D., is co-founder and co-director of The School of Spiritual Psychology, which began in 1992, and co-editor of Goldenstone 5:00 - 5:15 pm Break Press. He is author of six books. His main emphasis has been to develop theoretical and practical approaches to perceiving and being in right relation with the Soul of the World, showing that humans are pulled from the time stream from the future rather than pushed from the past, and 5:15 - 6:45 pm Session II : Bob Kugelmann, Natasha Stroud, Scott Churchill developing the interior consciousness of the heart. He has created new, yet very practical cultural visions in areas such as the meaning of books, Session Leader: Jean Lall the essence of service, the virtues, money, business, giving, healing, religion, living through the heart, and how to be in right relationship with and in the earth. He is an independent teacher and scholar. He is a Founding Fellow of the Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture. 7:00 - 8:00 pm Dinner Tex-Mex Buffet – Stroud House Annex G. Kwame Scruggs, Ph.D., has over 20 years’ experience using myth in the development of urban male youth. The founder and Director of Pro- 8:00 pm Magic Show : Tom Verner grams and Training for Alchemy, Inc., he holds a Ph.D. and M.A. in Mythological Studies with an emphasis in Jungian Depth Psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute in Santa Barbara, . Kwame also holds a M.S. degree in Technical Education with an emphasis in Guidance and Counseling from the University of Akron where he also completed all coursework for a Masters degree in Community Counseling. He has conducted numerous workshops on the use of myth to engage urban youth, presenting at C. G. Jung sites of New York, Washington, D.C. and Philadelphia. In 1993, after SATURDAY 29 October being formally initiated into the Akan System of Life Cycle Development (African-based rites of passage), Kwame became a Certified Facilitator of this process. In 2013, Kwame was presented with the first Wendy Davee Award for Service from The Pacifica Graduate Institute Office of Alumni Relations 8:00 - 9:00 am Continental Breakfast – Main House Porch and the Alumni Association, which honored him for his many activities and achievements that embody Pacifica’s mission to“Tend the of the World.” In 2016 he was one of three recipients presented with the University of Akron’s Black Male Summit Legacy Award. Kwame is a member of the 9:00 am Symposium opens – Nancy Cain Marcus Conference Center National Guild for Community Arts Education and was selected for the 2014 class of CAELI (Community Arts Education Leadership Institute). Kwame 9:15 - 9:30 am Margot McLean on Hillman & Alchemical Psychology has also served as a consultant for a project with the Joseph Campbell Foundation and as an advisor for the filmRites of Passage by Warrior Films and is on the National Advisory Panel for Rutgers University-Newark’s Center on Youth Violence and Juvenile Justice. 9:30 - 11:00 am Session III : Pat Berry, , Safron Rossi Michael P. Sipiora, Ph.D., is a professor in the doctoral program in clinical psychology at Pacifica Graduate Institute where he is also the Director Session Leader: Robert Sardello of Research. He spent over twenty years as a tenured professor at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh where he was an award-winning teacher in 11:00 - 11:15 am Coffee Break both their APA-approved clinical program in Human Science Psychology and School for Leadership and Professional Advancement. Before that, he taught psychology, philosophy, and literature at community colleges in Dallas. The author of numerous peer-reviewed articles, book chapters, 11:15 am - 12:30 pm Tom Moore – Intro. by Joanne Stroud and an edited book, areas of Dr. Sipiora’s teaching and publication include existential-phenomenological psychology and philosophy, archetypal psychology, hermeneutics, classical rhetoric, and narrative theory. He earned a B.A. and M.A. in Philosophy at San Jose State University where his studies focused on phenomenology with an emphasis on the work of . His masters and doctoral studies in psychology with 12:30 - 1:30 pm Lunch Conversation – Stroud House Annex a concentration in literature were carried out at the University of Dallas. Dr. Sipiora is a licensed clinical psychologist in both Pennsylvania and 1:15 pm Café Momentum: Chad Houser – Stroud House Annex California, and he has a wide range of clinical experience in both private and community mental health settings. Currently, he has a therapy practice in Santa Barbara. While in Pittsburgh, he was co-founder of an organizational development and individual coaching company that worked with small business, nonprofits, and educational institutions. 1:30 - 1:45 pm Break – back to the Nancy Cain Marcus Conference Center

Glen Slater, Ph.D., has studied and trained in religious studies and clinical psychology. For the past 18 years he has taught Jungian and archetypal 1:45 - 3:15 pm Session IV : Gail Thomas, Gustavo Barcellos, Robert Sardello psychology at Pacifica Graduate Institute, where he is a professor in the depth psychology programs. He edited and introduced the third volume Session Leader: Jean Lall of James Hillman’s Uniform Edition, Senex and Puer, as well as a volume of essays by Pacifica faculty, Varieties of Mythic Experience, and has 3:15 - 3:30 pm Break contributed a number of essays to Jungian journals and collections. He is writing a book on technologism, the psychology of the posthuman movement and related implications for living in the Digital Age. 3:30 - 5:00 pm Session V : Michael Sipiora, Scott Becker, Glen Slater Dennis Patrick Slattery, Ph.D., has for the past twenty-three years been a Core Faculty member in the Mythological Studies Program at Pacifica Session Leader: Larry Allums Graduate Institute in Carpinteria, CA. He has taught for the past forty-five years at the elementary, secondary, undergraduate, and graduate levels. 5:00 pm Symposium Wrap From 1984-87, he taught teachers the classics of literature in the Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture’s Summer Program for Teachers. He also taught for six years at the Fairhope Institute of Humanites and Culture’s Summer Program for high school teachers under the direction of 5:15 - 6:30 pm Celebration Reception – Main House Dr. Larry Allums, current director of the Dallas Institute. He is the author, co-author, editor, or co-editor of twenty-five volumes as well as over

PRESENTER BIOGRAPHIES

Larry Allums, Ph.D., is Executive Director of the Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture. He earned his M.A. in Literature and his Ph.D. film brought him to the “Speaking of Movies” group at the Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture, which he has co-hosted with Dr. Larry in Literature and Political Philosophy from the University of Dallas’ Institute of Philosophic Studies. He came to the Dallas Institute in 1998 Allums since 2008. The American Psychological Association presented him in 2013 with its Award for Outstanding Lifetime Service to Humanistic from the University of Mobile, where he was Professor of English and Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. He has edited a volume of Psychology, and in 2014 he was co-named with the University of Dallas’ Psychology Department as a recipient of the APA’s Charlotte and essays on epic poetry, The Epic Cosmos, and published articles on ancient Greek and Roman literature, Dante, and writers of the American Karl Bühler Award for Outstanding and Lasting Contributions to Humanistic Psychology. In August 2015, his APA policy resolution to pull Southern renascence, including William Faulkner, Allen Tate, Robert Penn Warren, and Caroline Gordon. Under his leadership, the Dallas psychologists out of interrogations at black sites was passed by APA’s Council of Representatives in a landmark 157-1 vote. Institute continues to emphasize its longstanding work with pre-K through 12th grade elementary and secondary school teachers, principals, and superintendents, and in the area of urban issues, most notably through its annual “What Makes a City?” conferences. During his tenure, Robert Kugelmann is Professor of Psychology at the University of Dallas. He is the author of three books, including Psychology and he has directed the creation of several new Institute programs, including the Hiett Prize in the Humanities, the Martin Luther King, Jr., Catholicism: Contested Boundaries (2011). Research publications are in medical anthropology, critical health psychology, and the history of Symposium, and The Dallas Festival of Ideas in partnership with The Dallas Morning News. psychology. Current research projects are on the history of “will psychology,” the history of the soul in modern psychology, and a biographical study of Edward Boyd Barrett. Gustavo Barcellos is a Jungian analyst in São Paulo, Brazil, a member of the Associação Junguiana do Brasil-AJB and the International As- sociation for -IAAP. He is the founding member and Editor-in-Chief ofCadernos Junguianos, AJB’s annual journal, since Jean Lall is an independent scholar, astrological consultant, and psychotherapist in Baltimore. A Texan on her father’s side, she majored in its inception in 2005. He has lived in the USA during the 1980s where he finished his M.A. in Clinical Psychology at the New School for Social English at Southern Methodist University and went on to teach in India under the Fulbright Program and then to serve on the Peace Corps Research, and studied at the C. G. Jung Foundation, both in New York City. During this period he met James Hillman, with whom he studied staff. Her M.A. thesis (Lesley University) explored astrology as a depth-psychological theory and method. Her ongoing research interests and who was later to become his mentor and friend. After coming back to Brazil, he translated several of Hillman’s books into Portuguese and include the divinatory aspects of psychotherapy (traditional and modern) and the hermeneutics of images (literary, religious, divinatory, is responsible for introducing archetypal psychology to Brazilian students. He is the author of many books and articles in Brazil and abroad oneiric, and artistic). Her publications include a book co-edited with Angela Voss,The Imaginal Cosmos: Astrology, Divination and the Sacred. in the field of archetypal psychology, imagination and the arts, including a book on the Psychology of the Brother , in 2009, and She has taught courses and seminars in archetypal studies through the Institute for the Study of Imagination and at the University of Kent, a book on Psyche & Image, in 2012. He was a contributor to the books: Listening to Latin America—Exploring Cultural Complexes in Brazil, where she pursued postgraduate research in cosmology and divination. Currently, she serves on the executive committee of the International Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Uruguay and Venezuela and Psyche and the City: A Soul’s Guide to the Modern Metropolis, edited by Thomas Singer Association for Jungian Studies. for Spring Journal Books, to which he contributed the chapter on São Paulo, “Harlequin City.” He has been professionally involved with Jung- Stanton Marlan, Ph.D., ABPP, LP is an archetypally oriented Jungian analyst and a clinical psychologist who has a long-time passion for ian educational and analytical institutes throughout the country, and teaches seminars in Jungian and archetypal psychology. He holds a . He worked closely with James Hillman, first as his analysand and later as a colleague and friend. Over many years, he private practice in São Paulo, Brazil, since 1985. exchanged ideas with and helped James to edit his work in Alchemical Psychology. Dr. Marlan holds two Ph.D.’s from Duquesne University, one in Clinical Psychology and one in Philosophy. He is a training and supervising analyst with the Inter-Regional Society of Jungian Analysts, Scott Becker, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist currently serving as the Acting Director of the Counseling Center at Michigan State University. President of the Pittsburgh Society of Jungian Analysts, and President of the American Board and Academy of Psychoanalysis, as well as an Dr. Becker has published in Spring and Death Studies, and he contributed the psychological commentary to the recent biography The Life adjunct Professor of Psychology and Clinical Supervisor at the Duquesne University Psychology Clinic. He is the author of The Black Sun: The and Ideas of James Hillman. He is also the editor of the forthcoming Inhuman Relations, Volume 7 of the Uniform Edition of the Writings Alchemy and Art of Darkness, and the editor of Salt and the Alchemical Soul and Archetypal Psychologies: Essays in Honor of James Hillman, of James Hillman. Dr. Becker’s areas of interest are informed by archetypal psychology and include trauma, mourning, dreams, multicul- and has written many articles on alchemy and Jungian psychology. He is currently working on a new book entitled The Philosophers Stone: turalism, and astrology. He has also developed an integrative paradigm addressing the negative impact of technology and social media on The Alchemy and Art of Illumination, to be published by Texas A&M Press. neurological development and psychological functioning. Andre Kwesi McCray is a Co-Facilitator at Alchemy, Inc. He holds a B.S. in English and History from The University of Akron and a M.A. in Patricia (Pat) Berry, Ph.D., received her diploma in Analytical Psychology from the C. G. Jung Institute Zurich in 1974. She was one of the early Counseling Psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute in Santa Barbara, CA. Andre has worked with various youth agencies in the Akron contributors to what came to be called by James Hillman, archetypal psychology. A twenty-year companion of Hillman’s, she taught widely area and was recently initiated into the Akan System of Life Cycle Development (African-based rites of passage). and took residency positions along with him as adjunct faculty at Yale University, the University of Syracuse, and the University of Dallas, where, in addition to teaching undergraduate courses, she became a student in the graduate school, earning her Ph.D. in 1984. During that time, Margot McLean is a visual artist who lives and works in New York City and rural Connecticut. She has collaborated with James Hillman on she was also active in the early years of the Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture. Many of Pat’s earlier talks and papers are collected in many projects, including Permeability, for the Art & Psyche Conference, San Francisco, CA; Shadows of the Earth, Schumacher College, Echo’s Subtle Body: A Contribution to Archetypal Psychology. Later papers, published in various places, focus on a wide range of phenomena Totnes, UK; The Human Place in the Natural World, Nathan Cummings Foundation, NYC; and Dream Animals (1997, Chronicle Books). Her such as multiple personality disorder, child abuse, the orphan, film, and aesthetics. She has been professionally active with Jungian educational work has been exhibited internationally (Italy, Ireland, Japan): includingcatching light, migrations, water flow, extinctions, La Specola Natural institutions, serving as Director of Training and President of both the Inter-Regional Society of Jungian Analysts and of the C. G. Jung Institute History Museum, Florence; and Plant, Animal, Habitat, The Cathedral of St. John the Divine, NYC. of Boston. She travels and teaches internationally. Her home base is Woodacre, California, where she has a practice. Thomas Moore, Ph.D., is the author of the best-selling book Care of the Soul and fifteen other books on deepening spirituality and cultivating Scott D. Churchill is Professor of Psychology at the University of Dallas, where he has previously served as Chair of Psychology and Founding soul in every aspect of life. He has been a monk, a musician, a university professor, and a psychotherapist, and today he lectures widely on Director of its Masters Programs in Psychology. A Fellow of the Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture as well as of the American Psycho- holistic medicine, spirituality, psychotherapy, and the arts. He lectures frequently in Ireland and has a special love of Irish culture. He has a logical Association, Dr. Churchill is currently Editor-in-Chief of The Humanistic Psychologist (an APA Division Journal) and past President of Ph.D. in religion from Syracuse University and has won several awards for his work, including an honorary doctorate from Lesley University the Society for Humanistic Psychology. He was recently re-elected to the APA Council of Representatives, and newly elected to the executive and the Humanitarian Award from Einstein Medical School of Yeshiva University. Three of his books have won the prestigious Books for a Better committee for APA’s Society for Qualitative Inquiry. He has made numerous presentations at professional conferences both nationally and Life awards. He writes fiction and music and often works with his wife, artist and yoga instructor, Hari Kirin. He writes regular columns for internationally, and has authored articles and book chapters in the fields of phenomenology, bonobo communication, empathy, and the Resurgence, Spirituality & Health and The Huffington Post and has recently published Writing in the Sand: The Spirituality of Jesus and the alchemy of desire. He has developed and taught courses at the University of Dallas in phenomenological psychology, hermeneutics, depth Soul of the Gospels, Care of the Soul in Medicine, and The Guru of Golf and Other Stories about the Game of Life. Much of his recent work has psychology, projective techniques, primate studies, and the psychoanalysis of film, and was named a Piper Professor in 2014. His interest in focused on the world of medicine, speaking to nurses and doctors about the soul and spirit of medical practice.