BOOKS

Jungian Reflections on Systemic Racism: Members of an American Psychoanalytic Community on Training, Practice and Inclusivity. London & New York: Routledge, 2023. Co-edited volume with Christopher J. Carter.

Jungian Reflections on Systemic Racism is a unique contribution of Jungian analysts and analysts-in-training who provide individual perspectives and approaches to promoting greater inclusivity in analytical theory, training and practice.

This book examines issues of racism through intrapsychic, interpersonal, and archetypal lenses. Drawing from the specificity and ingenuity of Jungian psychoanalysis, the authors provide personal narratives, clinical vignettes, and theoretical perspectives that exemplify ways of comprehending and furthering the work of anti-racism. The editors assert that without deeper exploration of our theories, distinguishing between the theory itself and the theorist’s unconscious biases, our clinical paradigms unconsciously align and thus perhaps promote an attitude of white supremacy in psychoanalytic training programs and practices. Without claiming to reflect the official view of any particular psychoanalytic community, it utilizes Jung’s analytic paradigm to offer insight into the dynamics of the cultural complex of racism from a depth psychological perspective.

Jungian Reflections on Systemic Racism is an important resource for psychoanalytic students, trainees, supervisors, and practitioners, as well as for clinicians, medical professionals, social workers, mental health professionals, sociologists, and anyone interested in the wide impact of the unscientific construct of 'race’.

History Through Trauma: History and counter-history in the Hebrew Bible. Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock Publishers, 2018.

Our sacred texts have the potential to become texts of torture or texts of liberation. History through Trauma explores the symbolic function of religious, political, and national symbols that aid in the construction of historical narratives, and the psychological effects of trauma on their creation and dissolution. The Deuteronomic Covenant, paramount in the construction of a biblical history of Israel, is analyzed with regard to Israel's history of exile. What is proffered is the book of Job as a symbolic history of Israel that stands as a counter-history beside the dominant history constructed in the canon's historical books--a counter-history whose function works to re-enliven the symbol of covenant. History through Trauma brings consciousness to the effects of exile on the dominant historical narratives in the Hebrew canon and to the eradicated affective experiences of trauma that surface in counter-texts such as the book of Job. This work offers a valuable new understanding of the impact of trauma on history-making in general--an understanding that brings light to biblical studies, practical theology, pastoral psychology, and psychoanalysis.

"Broken Silence: An Interdisciplinary Study on Formed, Unformed, and Reformed Trauma," In the Wake of Trauma: Psychology and Philosophy for the Suffering Other. 

“Unbarring Sheol: Unconscious Illuminations on the History, Form and Reception of the Hebrew Bible,” in Jung in the Academy and Beyond: The Fordham Lectures 100 Years Later (New York: Spring Publishing, 2015).  

ARTICLES

“Unhinged: A Prospective Perspective on Being Unsafe.” J Anal Psychol. 2024 Apr;69(2):195-206. doi: 10.1111/1468-5922.12990. Epub 2024 Mar 14. PMID: 38482982.

“Into the Void: An amplification on analytic intimacy and vulnerability in the tale of two sisters, Inanna and Ereshkigal,” in the International Association of Analytical Psychology’s international congress proceedings from Buenos Aires, 2022.

“A Womb of One’s Own: Trauma, the Transcendent, and the Transference in the Borderline Phenomenon,” in Studies in Gender and Sexuality, 22:1, 16-27, DOI:10.1080/15240657.2021.1883846, (2021).

“Traumatic Narratives: When biblical narratives constructed in the midst of trauma re-traumatize,” in Sacred Spaces: The E-Journal of the American Association of Pastoral Counselors, Vol. 9, Spring,  (2017).

“Reimagining in order to Reimage God: A depth psychological look at the Book of Job in relation to the Deuteronomistic History and its applications for today,” in the Union Seminary Quarterly Review (New York: Union Theological Seminary, 2016).

“When Fast-Held God Images Fail to Meet Our Needs: A Psychoanalytic Reading of Job Chapters 6 and 7,” in Pastoral Psychology, 10.1007/s11089-013-0554-4 (2013).

“Good God?!? Lamentations as a Model for Mourning the Loss of the Good God,” in Journal of Health and Religion, Volume 51, Number 3 (2012).

“Homogeneity: Safe or Profane?  The Journey Toward the True Self. A Study of Genesis 11:1-9,” in Reformed Review, Volume 62, Number 2 (2009).