STANTON MARLAN, Ph.D., ABPP, FABP, LP
5400 Hobart Street Pittsburgh, PA 15217 (412) 422-2462 (h) (412) 621-3170 (o) E-mail: [email protected]
Current Positions
Jungian Psychoanalyst and Clinical Psychologist in private practice. Teaching and Training Analyst for the Inter-Regional Society of Jungian Analysts and the C.G. Jung Analyst Training Program of Pittsburgh.
Adjunct Clinical Professor of Psychology, Duquesne University—Department of Psychology, and clinical supervisor for the Psychology Clinic, Pittsburgh, PA.
President, Pittsburgh Society of Jungian Analysts (Member Society, IAAP-International Association for Analytical Psychology), 2004–present.
Editorial Board, Jung Journal: Culture and Psyche; Advisory Board, Spring: Journal of Archetype and Culture; Editorial Advisory Board, Quadrant: Journal of the C.G. Jung Foundation for Analytical Psychology; Editorial Board, Metalepsis: Journal of the American Board and Academy of Psychoanalysis.
Board of Directors and Past President, American Board and Academy of Psychoanalysis (ABAPsa, specialty board of the ABBP-American Board of Professional Psychology).
Board of Trustees (BOT) of ABPP, representing the Psychoanalysis Specialty; and Member of the Publications and Awards Committees.
Co-Chair of the Psychoanalysis Synarchy Group for Council of Specialties in Professional Psychology (CoS).
Former Clinical Positions
Medical staff, Forbes Regional Hospital Department of Psychiatry, Pittsburgh, PA, 1993– 2000.
Director, South Hills Counseling Center of Southwest Pittsburgh Mental Health and Mental Retardation Services, Pittsburgh, PA. January 1974–August 1977.
Chief Psychologist, Chartiers Mental Health and Mental Retardation Center, Drug Abuse Program, Bridgeville, PA. September 1972–January 1974.
Staff Psychologist, Washington - Green County Mental Health and Mental Retardation Clinic, Washington, PA. September 1971–September 1972.
Inpatient Psychologist, Somerset State Psychiatric Hospital, Somerset, PA. September 1970–September 1971.
Former Academic and Scholarly Positions
Academy Fellows and Mentor Coordinator, Board of Directors, American Board and Academy of Psychoanalysis 2012-present, specialty board of ABBP.
Past President, American Board and Academy of Psychoanalysis, 2015-2017 Editor, Journal of Jungian Theory and Practice, Clinical journal of the C.G. Jung Institute of New York, 2004–2006.
Representative of Psychoanalytic Specialty to the Council of Specialties (CoS), 2012.
Adjunct Professor of Depth Psychology, Pacifica Graduate Institute, Carpinteria, CA, 1997–1999.
Visiting Lecturer, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA. 1986.
Instructor, Jersey City State College, Jersey City, NJ. Member of Faculty Senate, 1968- 1970.
Adjunct Lecturer, New School for Social Research, New York, NY. 1969.
Certification
Jungian Psychoanalyst: Inter-Regional Society of Jungian Analysts, 1980.
Psychologist: Licensed, State of Pennsylvania, 1975. License Number PS 002047-L.
Psychoanalyst: Certified, New York State, 2006. Certificate Number 000373.
Diplomates
Fellow (FABP) in Adult Psychoanalysis of the American Board of Psychoanalysis, 2018.
Board certified in Psychoanalysis, American Board of Professional Psychology, 1996. Diploma #4646.
Board certified in Clinical Psychology, American Board of Professional Psychology, 1996. Diploma #4713.
Education
Ph.D., Clinical Psychology, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA, 1981.
Ph.D., Philosophy, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA, 2014.
M.A., Psychology, New School for Social Research, New York, NY, 1970.
M.A., Philosophy, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii, 1968.
B.A., Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, 1966.
Post-doctoral Studies
One year post-doctoral study in Cultural and Medical Anthropology at The New School for Social Research, New York, NY.
Diplomate Jungian Analyst, Inter-Regional Society of Jungian Analysts, 1980
Professional Associations
International Association for Analytical Psychology (IAAP)
Inter-Regional Society of Jungian Analysts (I-RSJA).
Pittsburgh Society of Jungian Analysts (PSJA).
American Board and Academy of Psychoanalysis (ABPP).
Academy of Clinical Psychology (of ABPP).
Honorary Appointments
Delegate and lecturer for the International Association for Analytical Psychology (IAAP) to the First International Congress of Jungian Psychology and Chinese Culture, December 1998.
Delegate to the International Association of Analytical Psychology’s (IAAP) XIVth Congress, Florence, Italy, August 2000.
Delegate to the International Association of Analytical Psychology’s (IAAP) XVth Congress, Cambridge, England, August 2001.
Delegate to the International Association of Analytical Psychology’s (IAAP) XVIth Congress, Barcelona, Spain, August 2004.
Invitation to present the annual Fay Lectures, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas in Spring 2003. (Proceedings published as a volume in The Annual Fay Lecture Series of Analytical Psychology by Texas A&M University Press, 2005.)
Chairperson, Mentor Committee, American Academy of Psychoanalysis, 2003–2007, 2012–present
Council of Advisors, C.G. Jung Center of Houston. 2003–2010.
Lecturer at the C.G. Jung Institute of Zürich, Summer 2004.
Advisory Board, Spring Journal, 2004–present.
Advisory Board, Cleveland Jung Society 2007–present.
Advisory Board, Quadrant: Journal of the C.G. Jung Foundation, 2009–present.
American Board for Accreditation in Psychoanalysis (ABAP), Board of Trustees, 2001– 2005.
Editorial Board, Jung Journal: Culture and Psyche, 2012–present. Psychoanalytic Representative to the Council of Specialties (CoS), American Board of Professional Psychology, 2014–2016.
Former Offices Held
First president and charter member of the Psychologist-Psychoanalysts’ Clinicians, Section V, Division 39, of the American Psychological Association.
Liaison to the Board of Directors of Division 39, from Section V, APA.
Founder and first President of the Pittsburgh Association for the Theory and Practice of Psychoanalysis, a local chapter of the Division of Psychoanalysis, APA.
Chairperson of the Committee on Credentialing for the International Federation of Psychoanalytic Education.
Senior Psychologist Advisory Committee for Article Review of the publication: Interface of Psychoanalysis and Psychology (ed.), James Barron, Morris Eagle, and David Wolitzky.
Editorial Board/Acquisitions Consultant of Quadrant: Journal of the C. G. Jung Foundation for Analytical psychology, 1987–88.
Board member of GAPPP (Group for the Advancement of Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis in Psychology), 1986
International Association for Analytical Psychology (IAAP) curriculum committee. 2012–present.
Sampling of Invited Presentations
International Association for Analytical Psychology’s (IAAP) Congress, Barcelona, Spain, 2004; presentation: “On Hesitation and Slowness: Gateway to Psyche’s Depth.”
Clark Conference, 100th Year Centennial on Psychoanalytic Education. “On Psychoanalytic Education.”
Psychologist-Psychoanalysts' Forum, Section V of Division 39, APA; lst Annual Scientific meeting January 1990: Moderator for “A Perestroika for Psychoanalysis: Crisis and Renewal.”
American Psychological Association’s Centennial Conference in Washington, DC, August 1992. Presenter for Sponsored Symposium, “The Unconscious in Contemporary Psychoanalytic Thought: Treatment Implications.”
International Conference for Archetypal Psychology, in honor of James Hillman, Notre Dame, South Bend, IN, August 1992. Presentation: “Pretexts of the Imaginal in the Hermetic Play of the Dream: Ontotheology of Bean.” (available from Sounds True Audio).
Department of Psychiatry, St. Francis Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA. Psychiatric Lecture Series, May 1993. Invited presentation on Jungian psychoanalysis.
Presentation for 13th International Human Science Research Conference, June 1994; presentation: “Dream Maps as an Articulation of the Multiple Intentionalities of Psyche.”
Maryland Psychological Association and Allegheny College co-sponsored program on Clinical Psychoanalysis, Indian Lake, PA, 1994; presentation on clinical psychoanalysis.
American Psychological Association, Section V, Symposium 1994: The Lengthy Analysis in the Age of Fast Foods. Presentation: “Psyche Speaks: It’s Going to be a Long Winter: A Reflection on Time and Analysis.”
5th Annual Conference of the International Federation of Psychoanalytic Education, Chicago, IL, 1994. Moderator for: “The False Dichotomy between Applied and Clinical Psychoanalysis,” by Marlin Stanton, Ph.D.
Archetypal Psychology Conference, East Aurora, NY, July 1999; presentation: “Revenge of the Spirit: Much Ado About Reason.”
Salt Institute Conference: Finding Fresh Waters: New Ways to Imagine Myth for a New Millennium, Santa Fe, NM, October 1999. Presentation: “Poison, Poison Everywhere, But Not a Drop to Drink.”
Pacifica Conference on Archetypal Psychology, University of CA, September 2000: From Grave to Cradle: Psychology at the Threshold. Invited presentation: “The Black Sun: Archetypal Image of the Non-Self.”
Analytical Psychology Society of Western New York, Buffalo, NY, Spring, 2005. Presentation: “Hesitation and Slowness: Respect as Technique,” dream analysis seminar, and case presentation: “Art and Individuation in the Process of Analysis.”
The C.G. Jung Foundation of New York, New York, NY, Summer 2005: “The Dark Mirror—Tragedy and Psyche.” Discussion of themes from The Black Sun.
Inter-Regional Society of Jungian Analysts, Boulder Co. August 18, 2008: “Archetypal Alchemy: The Transformation of the Psyche Matter-Continuum.”
The XVIIIth Congress of the International Association For Analytical Psychology, Montreal, August 2010, “The Philosophers' Stone as Chaosmos: The Self and The Dilemma of Diversity.”
International Alchemy Conference, Long Beach CA, 2011. Presentation: “The Philosophers' Stone: From a Dead Stone to a Living Philosophical One.”
Inter-Regional Society of Jungian Analysts, Virginia Beach, VA, October, 2008. Panel: “Alchemy: Fundamentals and Fundamentalism.”
CNASJA, “Cooking Jambalaya: Reflections on Tradition and Multiplicity,” November 2011.
The International Society for Psychology as the Discipline of Interiority, July, 2012, Berlin Germany, “The Psychologist who is not a Psychologist.”
Publications
Books:
Salt and the Alchemical Soul. Ernest Jones, Carl Jung, and James Hillman. Spring Publications, 1995. Editor, and critical introduction.
Fire in the Stone: The Alchemy of Desire. Chiron Publications, 1996. Editor, critical introduction, and chapter.
The Black Sun: The Alchemy and Art Of Darkness, Texas A&M Press, 2005. (Nominated for the Gradiva award for creative contributions that advance psychoanalysis 2006.)
Archetypal Psychologies: Reflections in honor of James Hillman, Editor, Stanton Marlan. Spring Journal Books, 2008.
The Encyclopedia of Psychology and Religion, Blanton-Peal Graduate Institute. Co- editors: Stanton Marlan, Ph.D., David Leeming, Ph.D, and Kathryn Madden, Ph.D. Springer Publications, 2009.
Articles, Chapters, Reviews:
Book Review: The Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch (trans. Philip B. Yampolsky). In Philosophy East and West: A Journal of Oriental and Comparative Thought. Vol. XVIII, No. 3, July 1968.
“Depth Consciousness,” in Metaphors of Consciousness (eds. Ron Valle and Rolf Von Eckartsberg). NY: Plenum Press, 1981.
“The Wandering Uterus: Dream and the Pathologized Image,” in Voices: The Art and Science of Psychotherapy (Journal of the American Academy of Psychotherapists), Vol. 21, Nos. 3 & 4, Fall 1985-Winter 1986. Reprinted in Carl Jung and Soul Psychology (eds. Karen Gibson, Donald Lathrop, E. Mark Stern). NY: Haworth Press, 1986.
Extended Critical Book Review, “A Blue Fire: The Work of James Hillman,” in Psychologist Psychoanalyst, Official Publication of Division 39 of the American Psychological Association, vol. IX, no. 4, Fall 1989.
Book Review of Jung and Phenomenology by Roger Brooke. In Psychologist- Psychoanalyst, Official Publication of Division 39 of the American Psychological Association, vol. XII, no. 3, Summer 1992.
“Section V, Psychologist-Psychoanalysts' Forum: A History (1986-1991),” co-authored with Joan P. Trachtman, in A History of the Division of Psychoanalysis of the American Psychological Association (eds. Robert C. Lane and Murray Meisels). Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1994.
“A History of the Pittsburgh Association for the Theory and Practice of Psychoanalysis,” coauthored with Terry Pulver, in A History of the Division of Psychoanalysis of the American Psychological Association (eds. Robert C. Lane and Murray Meisels). Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1994.
“Dream Maps and the Multiple Intentionalities of Consciousness,” in Methods (ed. Scott Churchill), Western Human Science Archives, University of Dallas, 1994.
“Archetypal Psychology, Post-Modernism and the Symbolic Function,” in Methods (ed. Scott Churchill), Western Human Science Archives, University of Dallas, 1996.
“Jung in China: the First International Conference of Jungian Psychology and Chinese Culture, 1998. A personal account.” Review: Contemporary Contributions to Jungian Psychology, (The Round Table Review), Vol. 6, No. 4, March/April 1999.
“The Metaphor of Light and its Deconstruction in Jung’s Alchemical Vision,” in Pathways into the Jungian World, (ed. Roger Brooke), Routledge, 1999.
Book review of A Dictionary of Alchemical Imagery, by Lyndy Abraham, Cambridge U. Press, 1998. In Harvest, vol. 45, no. 2, 1999.
“The Metaphor of Light and Renewal in Taoist Alchemy and Jungian Analysis,” presented in Guanghou, China; published in Quadrant, Summer 2001.
“The Mixed Texture of Symbolic Thought: A Response to and Elaboration of Some Points in Alan Jones’s Paper ‘Teleology and the Hermeneutics of Hope: Jungian Interpretation in Light of the Work of Paul Ricoeur.’” Journal of Jungian Theory and Practice, vol. 4, no. 2, 2002.
“Hesitation and Slowness: Gateway to Psyche’s Depth,” in The San Francisco Jung Institute Library Journal, vol. 24, no.1, February 2005.
“On the Etymology of ‘Festschrift’and Other Imaginal Realities,” with Jan Marlan, co- author. In Disturbances in the Field: Essays in Honor of David Miller. Editor Christine Downing, Spring Journal Books, New Orleans, 2006.
“From the Black Sun to the Philosophers’ Stone,” Spring 74: Alchemy. Spring Journal: A Journal of Archetype and Culture, Spring 2006.
“Alchemy,” Chapter 12 in The Handbook of Jungian Psychology: Theory, Practice and Applications. Ed. Renos K. Papadopoulos, Routledge, London and New York, 2006.
Contributor to The Edinburgh International Encyclopedia of Psychoanalysis, ed., Ross Skelton, (entries: Edward Edinger, The Ego/Self Axis), Edinburgh University Press, 2006.
“Pre-texts of the Imaginal in the Hermetic Play of the Dream: The Ontotheology of Bean.” Spring 77: Philosophy & Psychology. Spring Journal: A Journal of Archetype and Culture, Spring 2007.
“What is the Legacy of the Dead: Jung’s Memories and the Case of Zola’s Missing Book,” with David Miller. Spring 77: Philosophy & Psychology. Spring Journal: A Journal of Archetype and Culture, Spring 2007.
“Transference, Friendship and Other Mysteries: A Reverie,” in Archetypal Psychologies: Reflections in Honor of James Hillman, Spring Journal Books, 2008.
“Mystical Light: Dream Images and The Alchemy of Psychic Momentum,” in Archetypal Psychologies: Reflections in Honor of James Hillman, Spring Journal Books, 2008.
Book review of The Symbolic Alchemy of The Splendor Solis, by Joseph Henderson and Dyane Sherwood, in Journal of Analytical Psychology. London: Routledge, Fall 2009.
“Facing The Shadow,” in Jungian Psychoanalysis, by Murray Stein. Chicago: Open Court Publishers, 2009.
Montreal 2010, Proceedings of the XV111th Congress of the International Association For Analytical Psychology, Montreal, August 2010, "The Philosophers' Stone as Chaosmos: The Self and The Dilemma of Diversity." Edited by Pramila Bennett, Daimon Verlag 2012.
Foreward to, Reading The Red Book: An Interpretive Guide To C. G. Jung's Liber Novus, by Sanford Drob, Spring Journal Books, 2012.
“Jung and Alchemy: a Daimonic Reading,” in How to Read Jung and Why, Editors: Jean Kirsh and Murray Stein. , London: Routledge, 2013.
“The Philosophers' Stone as Chaosmos: The Self and The Dilemma of Diversity,” Extended version, Jung Journal: Culture and Psyche, Spring 2013.
“Colors of the Soul-Alchemy and the Aesthetic Imagination: A Review of James Hillman's Alchemical Psychology,” Jung Journal: Culture and Psyche, 2014.
“Abraxas and the Alchemy of Ice,” in Imagining Psychological Life: Philosophical, Psychological & Poetic Reflections – A Festschrift in Honor of Robert D. Romanyshyn, Ph.D., Ed. Michael P. Sipiora. Trivium, 2015.
Book review of The Life and Ideas of James Hillman, Vol. 1: The Making of a Psychologist, by Dick Russell, Helios Press, 2013, in Eranos, vol. 92, Spring Journal: A Journal of Archetype and Culture, Editor-in-Chief, Nancy Cater, J.D., Ph.D., Spring, 2015. Guest Editor: Riccardo Bernardini, Scientific Secretary, Eranos Foundation.
“The Psychologist Who’s Not a Psychologist: A Deconstructive Reading of Wolfgang Giegerich’s Idea of Psychology Proper,” Journal of Analytical Psychology, 61:2, 223- 238, 2016.
“The Absolute that is Not an Absolute: Alchemical Reflections on the Caput Mortuum, the Dark Other of Logical Light,” International Journal of Jungian Studies, Sept. 2016.
“My Dog that is Not My Dog: The Slippery Slope of PDI as a Method of Psychology,” International Journal of Jungian Studies, 9(1):1-4 · January 2017.
“Divine Darkness and Divine Light: Alchemical Illumination and the Mystical Play Between Knowing and Unknowing,” in Depth Psychology and Mysticism, ed. by David Odorisio and Thomas Cattoi, Palgrave, 2018.
“What’s the Matter—with Alchemical Recipes?: Philosophy and Filth in the Forging of Jung’s Alchemical Psychology,” in Philosophizing Jung, ed. by Jon Mills, Routledge, in press.