Ashok Bedi, MD, is a Jungian psychoanalyst and a board-certified psychiatrist. He is a member of the Royal College of psychiatrists of Great Britain, a diplomat in Psychological Medicine at the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of England, a Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association. He is a Clinical Professor in Psychiatry at the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee and a training analyst at the C.G. Jung Institute of Chicago. His books include In the Eye of the Storm: Staying Centered in Personal and Collective Crisis; The Spiritual Paradox of Addiction; Crossing the Healing Zone; Awaken the Slumbering Goddess: The Latent Code of the Hindu Goddess Archetypes; Retire Your Family Karma: Decode Your Family Pattern and Find Your Soul Path; and Path to the Soul. He is the liaison for the IAAP for developing Jungian training programs in India and travels annually to India to teach, train the consult with the Jungian Developing groups at several centers in India including Ahmedabad and Mumbai. He leads the annual “A Jungian Encounter with the Soul of India” study group to several centers in India under the auspices of the New York Jung Foundation and the C.G. Jung Institute of Chicago.

Lionel Corbett, MD,  trained in medicine and psychiatry in England and as a Jungian Analyst at the C.G. Jung Institute of Chicago. A professor of Depth Psychology at Pacifica Graduate Institute in Santa Barbara, California, he is the author of five books: Psyche and the Sacred: Spirituality Beyond Religion; The Religious Function of the Psyche; The Sacred Cauldron: Psychotherapy as a Spiritual Practice; The Soul in Anguish: Psychotherapeutic Approaches to Suffering; and Understanding Evil: A Psychotherapists Guide; and co-editor of several volumes of collected papers: Psyche’s Stories, Depth Psychology: Meditations in the Field; Psychology at the Threshold; and Jung and Aging. His latest book is The God-image: From Antiquity to Jung. 

Christine Downing PhD. In 2021, when she turned 90, she retired from 35 years of teaching at Pacifica Graduate Institute. Before this “encore career,” she taught at San Diego State University for almost twenty years and, concurrently, at the California School of Professional Psychology. But all along what she has most enjoyed doing has been leading study tours to such destinations as Greece, Turkey, Sicily and on one she called Exploring Freud’s World. Among her many publications are The Goddess; Myths and Mysteries of Same-Sex Love; Women’s Mysteries; Gods in Our Midst; Psyche’s Sisters: Re-Imagining the Meaning of Sisterhood; Gleanings: Essays 1982-2006; and Mythopoetic Musings.

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Michael Gibbons, one of Ireland’s most respected archaeologists, is acclaimed for his ongoing fieldwork in Connemara. A popular presenter, he has lectured worldwide, including at Oxford, Cambridge, the National Geographic Society, and the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. Author of Connemara: Visions of Iar Chonnacht, as well as numerous articles, Michael is a member of the Institute of Archaeologists of Ireland, the Croagh Patrick archaeological research team, and the Heritage Council of Ireland.

Erik Goodwyn, MD, is an Attending Physician at Eastern State Hospital in Lexington, Kentucky, Clinical Faculty at University of Kentucky, Courtesy Faculty at the Billings Clinic, and Adjunct Professor for University of Louisville, Department of Psychiatry. He has authored numerous publications in the field of consciousness studies, Jungian psychology, neuroscience, mythology, philosophy, anthropology, and the psychology of religion. He has delivered over sixty lectures, workshops, and essays in peer-reviewed journals on the above topics and has been invited to present at conferences on these topics in the US, Italy, Germany, Switzerland and Ireland.

Aryeh Maidenbaum, PhD, Jungian analyst, is co-director of the New York Center for Jungian Studies. His publications include “The Search for Spirit in Jungian Psychology”; “Sounds of Silence”; “Psychological Types, Job Change, and Personal Growth”; and “Anti-Semitism: The Jungian Dilemma”, which appeared in a recent book entitled Psychiatry and Anti-Semitism. In addition, he was co-editor of Lingering Shadows: Jungians, Freudians and Anti-Semitism; and editor of and contributor to, Jung and the Shadow of Anti-Semitism. His newest book is Jung and the Jewish Experience: Reflections by a Jungian Analyst,  published by Routledge in December 2024.

Sylvia Brinton Perera, MA, Jungian analyst, practices, writes and teaches in New York and Vermont. On the faculty and former board member of the Jung Institute of New York, she lectures and leads workshops internationally. Ms. Perera’s many publications include Descent to the Goddess: A Way of Initiation for Women; The Scapegoat Complex: Toward a Mythology of Shadow and Guilt; Dreams, A Portal to the Source; Celtic Queen Maeve and Addiction: An Archetypal Perspective; and The Irish Bull God: Image of Multiform and Integral Masculinity.

Diana Rubin, LCSW, co-director of the New York Center for Jungian Studies, has organized and led Jungian Seminars and Study Tours for over 25 years. Currently she has a private psychotherapy practice in New York City and New Paltz, New York, where she works with individuals and groups and also works remotely. A former staff psychotherapist at the Postgraduate Center for Mental Health’s Institute for the Performing Artist, Ms. Rubin has a special interest in the interface of psychotherapy and the creative process.  

Mary Dougherty, MFA, ATR, NCPsyA, is a Jungian analyst and art psychotherapist in private practice. She teaches at the C.G. Jung Institute of Chicago and nationally on the clinical uses of image-making as active imagination, and the impact of Jung’s thought on creative development and artistic production. Her special interest is on the symbolic function of art-making on the life of the maker.