ALUMNI PUBLICATIONS
Constance Rodriguez's dissertation Dancing in the Thresholds became Gifts of the Soul: Experience the Mystical in Everyday Life published by Llewellyn Worldwide in 2008.
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Ricki Tannen's dissertation Fictive-Female Sleuth: Mirror, Myth, and Metaphor became The Female Trickster: Post-Jungian and Postmodern Psychological Perspectives on Women in Contemporary Culture, published by Routledge in 2007.
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Craig Chalquist's dissertation In the Shadow of Cross and Sword: Imagining a Psychoanalysis of Place became Terrapsychology: Reengaging the Soul of Place, published by Spring Journal Books in 2007.
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Shelly Tochluk's dissertation Friends, Teachers, Witnesses, Healers: Whiteness and Cross-Race Friendship became Witnessing Whiteness: First Steps Toward an Anti-Racist Practice and Culture, published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group in 2007. The website for the book is http:witnessingwhiteness.com
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Robert Lloyd's dissertation Mystica Communitas: Toward a Gnostic Psychology of Individuation became The Knowledge That Leads to Wholeness: Gnostic Myths Behind Jung's Theory of Individuation, published in 2007 by Xlibris.
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Ellen Macfarland's dissertation Discovering the healing power of Nature: A New Perspective for Healing the Wounds of Childhood Abuse became The Sacred Path Beyond Trauma: Reaching the Divine Through Nature's Healing Symbols, published by North Atlantic Books in 2008.
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John Smethers' dissertation Scumbag Sewer Rats: Criminalized Male Drug Addicts and the Trickster Archetype became Scumbag Sewer Rats: An Archetypal Understanding of Criminalized Drug Addicts, published in 2008 by CheckPoint Press
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Ruth Meyer's dissertation Clio's Circle: Historians Who Dare to Embrace the Unconscious became Clio's Circle: Entering the Imaginal World of Historians, published by Spring Journal Books in 2007.
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Gay Bradshaw's dissertation Elephant Trauma and Recovery: From Human Violence to Liberation Ecopsychology became Elephants on the Edge: What Animals Teach Us About Humanity published by Yale University Press in 2009.
Some of Our Depth Psychology Alumni Dissertations Turned Into Books
Other Alumni Books
"At Pacifica, I found my voice and my vision as a writer."
Jennifer Leigh Selig, alumni
Many students enter the program with the deep desire to develop their voices as writers, with the goal of publication. Faculty are always encouraging students to write their papers with an eye on publication, and they mentor students with suggestions of journals and presses which may be good homes for their works. This mentoring is formalized in a second year class entitled "Orientation to Scholarly Research and Publication" in which students prepare an article or essay for journal submission.
Some of the publications on this page were the direct result of student papers; others came from revising dissertations. Congratulations to all our students and alumni who made their publishing dreams come true!
