Robert Romanyshyn, Ph.D.

Robert D. Romanyshyn is a teacher, writer, and psychotherapist trained in phenomenology and depth psychology, who applies his therapeutic experience to an analysis of cultural and historical issues. Since 1991 he has been a core faculty member in the Clinical Psychology Program at Pacifica and has taught as well in Depth Psychology, Mythological Studies, and Depth Psychology with an Emphasis in Psychotherapy.  He earned his Ph.D. in 1970 at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, where he studied phenomenology, philosophy, and depth psychology. He has been a guest professor and has given workshops at many universities and professional societies in the U.S., Canada, Europe, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. He has published six books, edited special journal issues, contributed chapters to over thirty volumes, published numerous articles and book reviews, and has done radio, television, and on line interviews.   

Areas of Interest: Imaginal Psychology as the outcome of a dialogue between phenomenology and Jungian Psychology and its application to research, cultural issues, education and psychotherapy; Exile, Homecoming and the Mythic Roots of Technology; Writing Down the Soul and the Creative Process.

He is currently working on Epiphanies in Dark Light: A New Introduction to Psychology that combines poems, photographic images, and psychological reflections. 

Class He’ll Teach in 2009-2010: Imaginal Ways of Knowing





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