“No line of research which asserted that its subject was . . . a ‘nothing but’ has ever made any contribution to knowledge” Jung (1944), Psychology and Alchemy, §120.

This seminar will focus on the question of research in depth psychology.  How can we find a way to conduct research that is truly in tune with the principles of analytical psychology?  How can we do justice to not only the wholeness of the object of the research but also to the subjectivities involved.  Such a research needs to be rigorous but without being reductive – but is this possible?

In this seminar our own research will focus primarily upon two depth psychological approaches to the subject, that of Robert Romanyshyn and that of Susan Rowland.

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Mark worked for 20 years as an actor and performer before training with the Independent Group of Analytical Psychologists, with whom he is a senior analyst. He is also a lecturer in Jungian and post-Jungian studies in the Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies, University of Essex.

Publications: Mark co-edited (with Emilija Kiehl and Andrew Samuels) Analysis and Activism - Social and Political Contributions of Jungian Psychology  (Routledge 2016) and wrote Two Souls Alas: Jung’s Two Personalities and the Making of Analytical Psychology (Chiron 2019) which won the International Association of Jungian Studies’ Best Book of 2019.

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Romanyshyn, R.  (2013) ‘Making a place for unconscious factors in research’ International Journal of Multiple Research Approaches 7(3):314-329-online at

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/269638412_Making_a_place_for_unconscious_factors_in_research

Romanyshyn, R. (2021) The Wounded Researcher: Research with Soul in Mind, Routledge.

Rowland, S. (2023) ‘Jungian Arts-Based Research (JABR): What it is, Why do it, and How’ Journal of Analytical Psychology, 2023, 68, 2, 1–4

Rowland, S & Weishaus J. (2021) Jungian Arts-Based Research and The Nuclear Enchantment of New Mexico, Routledge.

Saban, M. (2022) ‘Two Jungs: Two Sciences?’ International Journal of Jungian Studies (2022) 1–21

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