Robert A. Segal
is Sixth Century Chair in Religious Studies, University of Aberdeen. He came to the United Kingdom from his native United States in 1994. He taught at Lancaster University, England, and since 2006 has taught at Aberdeen. He writes and teaches on theories of myth and religion and also on Gnosticism. Among the works he has written or edited are The Poimandres as Myth (1986), Joseph Campbell (rev. 1990), The Gnostic Jung (1992), Jung on Mythology (1998), The Myth and Ritual Theory (1998), Theorizing about Myth (1999), The Blackwell Companion to the Study of Religion (2000), 30-Second Mythology (2012), and Myth: A Very Short Introduction (rev. ed. 2015).
Miriam Gomes Freitas
is a brazilian medical doctor, specialist in psychiatry. She finished medical school in 1973, then she moved for a year to Paris, to the Neurology Department in the Salpetrière where prof. F Lhermitte was the chair person. From 1974 to 1980 she attended the C.G. Jung Institut in Zürich where she worked analytically with prof. C.A. Meier, M.M. Pope and had supervision with Dr. M. Jacoby, C.T. Frey and I. Baker. From 1980 she had her own Jungian praxis in Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil.
Her field of interest is wide. It includes art, philosophy, psychiatry, social psychology and Jewish studies – specially Spinoza, W. Benjamin and L. Wittgenstein. She is also a painter and writer. She writes poetry and wrote and directed a few theatre plays.
Maria Kostyszak
is a scholar in the Institute of Philosophy at the Wrocław University, Poland. She has written four books and over forty articles. Her books: B. Pascal and B. Spinoza- Comparison of Philosophical Approaches, Martin Heidegger- Handwork of Thinking, The Essence of Technology – the Voice of Martin Heidegger, The Quarrel with Language – Criticism of ontotheology in F. Nietzsche’s, M. Heidegger’s and J. Derrida’s writings. At present her field of research embraces philosophy of technology with the particular emphasis on transformation of ethics. She is focused on examining chances and conditions to liberate human thinking from the present dominance of instrumental reason.
Joseph Cambray
Ph.D., is Provost at Pacifica Graduate Institute; he is Past-President of the International Association for Analytical Psychology and has served as the U.S.
Alessandra de Coro
is a Jungian analyst (IAAP) and Associate Professor of Dynamic Psychology in Faculty of Psychology at the University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Italy, where she is the head of the Department of Dynamic and Clinical Psychology.
She published several books: “Dynamic psychology. The clinical theories”, / “Psicologia dinamica. Le teorie cliniche” [Italian], 2007. “Empirical research in psychotherapy” / “La ricerca empirica in psicoterapia” [Italian], 2004. Psicologia Dinamica: i modelli teorici (Laterza, Roma 2010) (co-author with F. Ortu), in English: Dynamic Psychology: Theorical Models.
Anna Olejarczyk
is an assistant professor in the Faculty of Philosophy in University of Wroclaw, Poland. She works on the fields of semiotics, hermeneutics, and theory of discourse and is very keen to explore the modern reception of Plato’s philosophy, especially in French and German tradition. She published (and co-edit) eight books on modern reception of Plato and the concept of possible worlds. She cooperate with four philosophical and interdisciplinary multiannual projects (“Colloquia Platonica”, “Possible Worlds”, “Mythopeia”, and “Phronesis”). Her recent works consider the ontology of discourse. Her hobby is tutoring the students from science Club of Philosophical Psychology “Parusia.”
Ewa Kwiatkowska
is a researcher in the Institute of Sociology at the Wrocław University, Poland. She deals with the problem of the border of contemporary theories and philosophy of culture, especially with metatheory of contemporary humanities with research on myth and theory of images. At the moment she works on her new book concerning different contemporary interpretations of images in verious fields and applies different approaches.
is Professor of Clinical Psychology at the Catholic University of Applied Sciences in Freiburg, Germany; a Jungian psychoanalyst in private practice in Freiburg and a member of the faculties of the C.G. Jung Institutes in Stuttgart and Zurich. He specializes in work with couples and families and in interpretive research methods. His research and publications cover such areas as analytical psychology and contemporary sciences, couples counselling, postmodern identity construction, narrative research, and media psychology.
Roderick Main
Ph.D., is a professor in the Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies at the University of Essex, UK, where he is also Director of the Centre for Myth Studies. He is the author of The Rupture of Time: Synchronicity and Jung’s Critique of Modern Western Culture (Brunner-Routledge, 2004) and Revelations of Chance: Synchronicity as Spiritual Experience (SUNY, 2007), editor of Jung on Synchronicity and the Paranormal (Routledge/Princeton, 1997), and co-editor of Myth, Literature, and the Unconscious (Karnac, 2013).
Ilona Błocian
is an accociate professor in the Faculty of Philosophy in University of Wrocław, Section of Philosophical Anthropology, Poland. Her interests are: philosophy of psychoanalysis, history of the unconscious conceptions, philosophy of myth, anthropology and psychology of religion, philosophy and anthropology of image. Subjects of publications: Jung’s conceptions of the unconscious, definitions of the archetype notion, Freud’s and Jung’s conceptions of evil, mythopoetic function of the unconscious, psychoanalysis and myth, relation between myth and philosophy, basic images in Jungian and French philosophical anthropology.
She is the author of Psychoanalytical Interpretations of Myth. Freud, Jung, Fromm, co-ed. Myth Studies. The Contemporary Presence of Myth; Myth Studies. Philosophical and Sociological Aspects of Myth. Minor: Jung’s Conception of Myth. The Schellingian Influence.
Megumi Yama
Ph.D., is a professor in the faculty of Humanities at Kyoto Gakuen University in Japan, where she teaches clinical psychology and depth psychology. She also engages in clinical work as a psychotherapist, mainly based on Jungian thought. She was educated in clinical psychology at Kyoto University under Professor Hayao Kawai. Her interest is in images and words; what is taking place in the invisible silence, seemingly “nothingness.” She deals with the theme byexploring clinical materials, formative art, myth, literature and Japanese culture.
Norifumi Kishimoto
is the head of the Department of Palliative Medicine at the Takatsuki Red Cross Hospital, Osaka, Japan. He is an internist specialized in palliative medicine and psychotherapy. He is one of the founders of the Japan Association of Jungian Psychology. He published several books: Cancer and Psychotherapy(1999), Palliative Mind (2004), Palliative Care from the Perspective of Narratology(2015), all in Japanese. He also translated Jungian books into Japanese: Christopher’s Dream (Robert Bosnak), Anatomy of Psyche (Edward Edinger), and Awakening Woman (Nancy Qualls-Corbett and Leila McMackin).
Michael Escamilla
is a professor of psychiatry and director of the Center of Excellence in Neuroscience at the Paul L. Foster School of Medicine, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, in El Paso Texas. He is an internationally renowned psychiatric researcher in the area of genetics of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. He is also a Jungian analyst, recently graduated from the Jung Institute in Zurich. His current scholarship is focussed on neurosciences and how these relate to both genetics and Jungian depth psychology.
Andrew Kuzmicki
Ph.D., an editor of Polish Online Journal of Analytical Psychology (JungPoland.org), a psychotherapist and a member of IAJS.
His interests are: the mind-body problem, human development seen from the perspective of the psychoanalytical theory of C.G. Jung with his concept of an individuation, but also seen from the perspective of the wider filed of the consciousness studies.
Some of the subjects of his publications were: Jung’s concept of the Self, the collective unconsciousness, archetypes and the concept of individuation with its archetypal dimension.
He published several books: “The Symbolism of the Self in the Theory of C.G. Jung” (“Symbolika Jaźni C.G. Junga” [Polish], 2008), “Psychology and Philosophy of C.G. Jung” (“Psychologia i filozofia C.G. Junga” [Polish], 2013), “Individuation – Literature – Culture” (“Indywiduacja – literatura – kultura” [Polish], 2013).
Jolanta Kowal
Ph.D., in economic sciences, Jungian analyst, assistant professor in the Institute of Psychology of Wrocław University, Poland. She is a member of
Zbigniew Bitka
is a of the “Wandering towards the end of suffering. Archetypal and symbolic themes in the prose of Jerzy Krzysztoń” (STUDIES AND MONOGRAPHIES No. 304), Opole 2001; and co-author of books in Theatre studies: “People and Puppets” Opole 2007 and “The Elements of Theatre” Opole 2017. Associate Professor at the Institute of Polish and Cultural Studies at Opole University. Member of the Polish Association for Analytical Psychology.
Research interests: modern historic prose analysed through archetypal criticism, hermeneutics and psychoanalysis. Literary Director of the Puppet and Actor Theatre in Opole, author of theatrical screenplays.