Janet O. Dallett

After growing up in rural, south-central Michigan, I studied psychology first at Kalamazoo College, then Berkeley, UCLA where I received my PH.D., and the C. G. Jung Institute, Los Angeles where I was certified as a Jungian analyst. AFter completing my training I taught at the Los Angeles Institute for seven years and served as director of training there.

In 1983, a longing for connection with the natural world and a more contemplative way of life brought me to Port Townsend, Washington, on the remote and rugged Olympic Peninsula northwest of Seattle. There I divide my professional time between writing and work as a Jungian analyst. As analyst, I specialize in the psychology of creativity. As author, I write in a conversational voice to communicate my exploration of the inner world to a general audience without dumbing down Jung's thought. I have lectured widely in the U.S. and Canada and my work is published in both popular magazines and professional journals. I belong to the Interregional Society of Jungian Analysts and founded the Edward F. Edinger reading group and its offshoot, the Jung Society of Port Townsend.

Details of Professional Biography

CURRICULUM VITAE

Janet Osborn Dallett

490 29th Street

Port Townsend, WA 98368

(360)385-6165

Washington State Psychology License #1204

Born February 4, 1933, Hastings, Michigan

1956: B.A., Kalamazoo College, Kalamazoo, Michigan

1956-57: Research Assistant, Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley

1957: Teaching Assistant, Department of Psychology, U.C., Berkeley

1957-59: Graduate Research Psychologist, Department of Psychology, U.C., Berkeley

1959-61: Graduate Research Psychologist, Department of Education, U.C., Berkeley

1973: Ph.D. in Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles

1974: Certified Jungian Analyst, C. G Jung Institute, Los Angeles

1976-1978: Director of Training, C. G. Jung Institute, Los Angeles

1974-1983: Ongoing teaching of analytic trainees and the general public.

1988-present: Teaching, lectures, and workshops to professional and lay organizations throughout North America including: Seattle, Spokane, Olympia, Portland Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, Victoria B.C., Vancouver B.C., Richmond VA, Toronto, Scranton, PA, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, San Francisco, Montreal, Fort Lauderdale, Houston, Ithaca, Norfolk, Santa Fe, Denver, Orange County, San Diego, Port Townsend, WA, OLawrence, Kansas. Numerous presentations to the Interregional Society of Jungian Analysts. Plenary speaker for the 1991 Friends' Conference on Religion and Psychology in Annville PA. Speaker for the 2006-2007 School of Athens lecture series, Port Townsend, WA. Speaker for the 2008 North American Conference of Jungian Analysts and Candidates, Sebasco, Maine.

1974-present: Jungian Analyst in Private Practice.

Licensed to practice psychology, originally in California and currently in Washington.

Member Interregional Society of Jungian Analysts.

Member International Association for Analytical Psychology.

Member American Psychological Association.

2000-present: Founder and ongoing teacher for Port Townsend Jung Society, Port Townsend, WA, an offshoot of the Edward F. Edinger Reading Group begun in 2000 for the study and advancement of the work of C. G. Jung.

PUBLICATIONS

with Joseph C. Speisman and Richard S. Lazarus: "Cluster analysis of skin resistance and heart rate at rest and under stress." Psychosomatic Medicine, 1961, 23, 323-343.

"Theories of dream function". Psychological Bulletin, 1973, 79, 408-416.

"The effect of sensory and social variables on the recalled dream: Complementarity, continuity, and compensation." Doctoral dissertation, UCLA, 1973. (Unpublished)

(Editor) The Dream: The Vision of the Night, by Max Zeller. Los Angeles: APC and C. G. Jung Institute, 1975.

"Looking for Jung: the man in the myth." Psychological Perspectives, Los Angeles, spring, 1978, 36-45.

"Active imagination in practice." In Murray Stein (Ed.) Jungian Analysis. La Salle, Ill.: Open Court Publishing Co., 1982, 173-191 (first edition).

"A passionate and sometimes lyric voice." Review of Gerhard Adler's Dynamics of the Self, Psychological Perspectives, fall, 1982, 200-203.

"When the spirits come back." Whole Earth Review, spring, 1986, 126-133. Reprinted in The Message, July-August, 1986, and in Free Spirit, fall, 1986. A longer version is in Voices: the Art and Science of Psychotherapy, winter/spring, 1985/1986, reprinted in Carl Jung and Soul Psychology, Gibson, Lathrop, and Stern, eds. NY: Haworth Press, 1986.

"Artist, analyst, shaman, thief." Psychological Perspectives, spring, 1986. Revised as "Shaman, artist, lunatic, thief" and reprinted in Free Spirit, Summer-Fall, 1988.

"A time for thieves." Whole Earth Review, winter, 1986. Reprinted in Free Spirit, May-June, 1987.

"Foundations of madness." Whole Earth Review, spring, 1988.

"Doorways." Voices: The Art and Science of Psychotherapy, spring, 1988.

When The Spirits Come Back. Toronto: Inner City Books, 1988.

Saturday's Child. Toronto: Inner City Books, 1991.

Review of Edward Edinger's The Living Psyche: A Jungian Analysis in Pictures," Psychological Perspectives, issue 23, winter, 1991.

Review of Edward Edinger's Goethe's Faust: Notes for a Jungian Commentary. Psychological Perspectives, issue 24, summer 1991.

Review of the video An American Jungian: Edward F. Edinger in Conversation with Lawrence Jaffe. The San Francisco Jung Institute Library Journal, issue 39, 1991.

Review of The Crying Game: A Reply to John Beebe. The San Francisco Jung Institute Library Journal, issue 46, 1993.

Review of Edward Edinger's Transformation of The God-Image. The San Francisco Jung Institute Library Journal, issue 47, 1993.

"Depth Psychology's Charlatan Shadow," Quadrant, XXVII:2, summer 1997, pp. 7-28.

Obituary, Edward F. Edinger. The San Francisco Jung Institute Library Journal, issue 66, 1998; reprinted in An American Jungian: in Honor of Edward F. Edinger, Elder and Cordic, eds., Inner City Books, 2009.

The Not-Yet-Transformed God: Depth Psychology and the Individual Religious Experience. York Beach, Maine: Nicolas-Hays, Inc., 1998.

"Silence Where No Sound May Be: The Dormouse Complex in Ethics Cases," Quadrant, XXX:2, summer 2000, pp. 6-19.

"Reply to Mr. Whalen and Dr. Hillis," Quadrant, XXXI:2, summer 2001, pp. 81-85.

Listening to The Rhino: Violence and Healing in a Scientific Age. New York: Aequitas Books(an imprint of Pleasure Boat Studio: A Literary Press), 2008.