Pacifica Graduate Institute announces Dr. Joseph Cambray, International Association of Analytical Psychology (IAAP) Past-President and Prestigious International Scholar, as Provost
Santa Barbara, CA (PRWEB) August 19, 2015
Pacifica Graduate Institute is an accredited higher education graduate school, and announces the promotion of Dr. Joseph Cambray as Provost of the Institute. “As a renowned international author and lecturer, Joe Cambray brings a tremendous range of knowledge and expertise in higher education, as well as experience leading a global organization advancing depth psychology around the world,” stated Dr. Stephen Aizenstat, Chancellor and Founding President of Pacifica Graduate Institute.
“On behalf of the Board of Trustees and the Pacifica community, we are pleased to welcome and give a warm, deserving congratulations to Joe Cambray as a prestigious international scholar to further advance our transformational academic programs,” stated Dr. Thyonne Gordon, Pacifica Board Chair.
“As Provost, I look forward to building upon and enhancing the academic and clinical excellence already established at Pacifica, integrating the most current research from numerous, relevant fields of inquiry,” stated Dr. Cambray. “I also am excited to apply my experience working in the international depth psychological community to help foster the expanding diverse, multicultural education which has been developing here and to increasingly include scholars from around the world. In this I’m delighted to continue the critical collaboration already in place with Pacifica’s Chancellor, Dr. Stephen Aizenstat, the current Provost and Academic Vice President, Dr. Patricia Katsky, and the Institutional Management Council team.”
Pacifica’s Board of Trustees and management recognize Dr. Katsky for her many years of extraordinary dedication and leadership, and she will step into the role of Vice-Provost to support the transition.
As the International Association for Analytical Psychology (IAAP) Past-President from 2010 to 2013 and an officer of the IAAP board for twelve years, Dr. Cambray brings a range of intellectual, academic, and administrative expertise to complement Pacifica’s vibrant community of leading scholars. He was President of the C. G. Jung Institute of Boston, U.S. Editor in Chief of the Journal of Analytical Psychology, and served on the editorial board of Jung Journal: Culture & Psyche. He was also a faculty member at the Center for Psychoanalytic Studies, Massachusetts General Hospital; Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School; and Visiting Professor, Kyoto University, Graduate School of Education.
He currently is a Regional Organizer for Asia on the IAAP’s Educational Committee. Dr. Cambray’s publications include “Synchronicity: Nature & Psyche in an Interconnected Universe” (Fay Lecture Series); “Analytical Psychology: Contemporary Perspectives in Jungian Psychology”, co-edited with Linda Carter; and, numerous articles, book chapters and professional reviews. In addition, he served on various editorial boards, such as the Israel Annual of Psychoanalytic Theory, Research and Practice and Psychoanalytic Psychology, the professional journal of Division 39 of the APA.
In addition to national and international academic credentials, Dr. Cambray brings strong organizational expertise and a depth psychological sensibility to support Pacifica’s growing outreach to the global community. His earlier experience also includes working as a clinician in a mental health center for seven years, where he became the director of the mental health department and managed a group of clinicians and staff.
For more information on Dr. Joseph Cambray and Pacifica Graduate Institute, you may contact Heidi Townshend, Director of External Affairs: 805-879-7374 or htownshend(at)pacifica(dot)edu.
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September 18 and 19, 2015: Joseph Cambray
Lecture: What are the academic and scientific roots of Jung’s psychology? How does his psychology hold up today? Jung’s 1912 Fordham lectures on the “Theory of Psychoanalysis” represent Jung’s growing theoretical differentiation from Freud. Soon after delivering these lectures, Jung resigned his position at the University of Zurich (in 1914) and did not fully resume academic work until 1933. In between these periods Jung underwent the inner experiences that led to the development of The Red Book.
Examination and comparison of these two periods reveal a tremendous shift in emphasis on what constituted science for Jung. In this lecture we will look at this shift and how Jung’s experiences leading to The Red Book were integral to this change. The scientific tradition associated with the German Romantic movement is key to understanding Jung’s transition. His rich friendship with Wolfgang Pauli, as well as the rise of the New Sciences of Field Theory, also influenced Jung’s model of the psyche and his contributions on Synchronicity. We will explore the resurging interest, re-valuation, and further understanding of Jung’s contributions in light of some branches of contemporary science, especially Complexity Theory with its concept of Emergence, and epigenetics, the study of non-DNA transmission of hereditary information, as a form of somatic, collective memory.
Workshop: Self-organization, Emergence and Synchronicity in Analytical Psychology
Many of us have experienced synchronicities without truly having tools to grasp what underlies these events. As an integral part of bringing The Red Book to a close, Jung formulated the concept of synchronicity. We will reconsider this cosmological principle in the light of a new scientific paradigm. The study of complex adaptive systems, in particular, affords a unique opportunity to reassess and revise several of Jung’s key concepts, including synchronicity, in line with his own evolving model of the psyche. In this workshop we will review and apply these concepts to experiences of the interactive field in analysis. We will observe self-organizing processes in analysis which lead to experiences of emergence in which what happens goes beyond the sum of the contributions by either analyst or analysand. In this vein, we will draw upon clinical presentation of the use of empathy, enactments, parallel processes and moments of complexity, including synchronistic occurrences within the context of analysis.
Joseph Cambray, Ph.D. is the incoming Provost for Pacifica Graduate Institute; he is Past-President of the International Association for Analytical Psychology; has served as the U.S. Editor for The Journal of Analytical Psychology and is on various editorial boards. He was a faculty member at Harvard Medical School in the Department of Psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital, Center for Psychoanalytic Studies; and former President of the C.G. Jung Institute of Boston. Dr. Cambray is a Jungian analyst now living in the Santa Barbara area of California. His numerous publications include the book based on his Fay Lectures: Synchronicity: Nature and Psyche in an Interconnected Universe and a volume edited with Linda Carter, Analytical Psychology: Contemporary Perspectives in Jungian Psychology. He has published numerous papers in a range of international journals.
