Thomas Elsner, J.D., M.A.

In Memorandum: PGIAA remembers Tom Elsner, a beloved Professor at Pacifica Graduate Institute, Jungian Training Analyst, and devoted husband and father:

Thomas Elsner, J.D., M.A., passed away on January 14, 2025. He was a Zurich-trained Jungian Analyst who ran a private practice in Santa Barbara, California, for 25 years. A former core faculty professor at Pacifica Graduate Institute, he was also a training analyst at the C.G. Jung Study Center of Southern California. Before training as a Jungian analyst, Thomas practiced as an attorney.

Thomas Elsner offered seminars and lectures nationally and internationally on his interests in literature and folklore, alchemy, dreams, active imagination, and intersections between physics and depth psychology.

His book A Flash of Golden Fire: Coleridge and the Alchemical Imagination will be published by Texas A&M University in August 2025. Learn more and pre-order the book here.

His Spirit and wisdom lives on, too, in his articles and Podcasts, some of which are listed here: https://thomaselsner.org/article.

We offer his family, friends, students and analysands our deepest condolences.