John Michael Hayes, PhD, has had a long career as a psychologist/psychoanalyst in the Baltimore-Washington area. A graduate of Catholic University of America, the Washington School of Psychiatry, the Washington Psychoanalytic Institute, and recently the Jungian Psychoanalytic Association’s analytic training program, he serves on the faculties of the University of Maryland Psychiatry Department, the Baltimore Washington Psychoanalytic Institute, and St. Mary’s Seminary and University. He also holds degrees in theology and is a priest of the Episcopal Diocese of Maryland. He has a private analytic practice in Baltimore, Maryland, where he lives with his wife psychotherapist Karen Jones, and his four adult children and six grandchildren nearby.