Thomas Elsner, J.D.

Thomas Elsner is a certified Jungian analyst who trained in Switzerland at the Center for Depth Psychology according to C.G. Jung and Marie-Louise von Franz. He is President of the C.G. Jung Study Center of Southern California. In addition to being core faculty in Pacifica's Counseling Psychology Program, he has taught in four of Pacifica's other degree programs, including the Alchemy and Mystery Traditions class for Depth students. He maintains a private practice in Santa Barbara, where he also founded the Santa Barbara Friends of Jung Society.

Areas of Interest: Thomas' interests include Jungian psychology, depth psychological approaches to literature, alchemy, and new cultural mythologies.

Class He’ll Teach in 2009-2010: Alchemy and the Mystery Traditions

SELECT PUBLICATIONS                                                   COURSE SYLLABUS            

Book review of Robert Romanyshyn's

The Wounded Researcher

Book review of Ross Woodman's

Sanity, Madness, Transformation: The Psyche in Romanticism

Alchemy and the Mystery Traditions