Mary Watkins, Ph.D.

Mary Watkins is core faculty in the program and serves as coordinator of  Community and Ecological Fieldwork and Research.  She is a clinical and developmental psychologist and was an early member of the archetypal/imaginal psychology movement. She has worked in a wide variety of clinical settings and with groups on issues of peace, diversity, social justice, reconciliation, and the envisioning of community and cultural transformation. She is the author of Waking Dreams, Invisible Guests: The Development of Imaginal Dialogues, co-author of Toward Psychologies of Liberation, and Talking with Young Children about Adoption, and co-editor of Psychology and the Promotion of Peace.

Areas of Interest:Working at the interface of Euro-American depth psychologies and psychologies of liberation from Africa, Latin America, and Asial fieldwork and research including psychocultural dynamics regarding immigration, processes of reconciliation and public conversation, and liberation arts.

Classes She’ll Teach in 2009-2010: Psychologies of Liberation, Enacting the Oral Tradition, Community/Ecological Fieldwork, Approaches to Group and Community Processes III, Frontiers of Depth Psychology

BOOKS                                                       SELECT PUBLICATIONS                         WEBSITE

"Waking Up: Depth Psychology and Terrorism"

"Depth Psychology and the Liberation of Being"

"On Returning to the Soul of the World: Archetypal Psychology and Cultural/Ecological Work"

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