Susan Olson

Susan L. Olson grew up in Wisconsin, graduated from Smith College in 1964, and earned her M.S.W. from the University of Georgia in 1975. A 1992 graduate of the C. G. Jung Institute (Zurich), she lives in North Carolina and is on the faculty of the Memphis/Atlanta Jungian Seminar, an affiliate of the Inter-Regional society of Jungian Analysts.

Susan's publications include: "Phantom of the Opera: Angel of Music or Demon Lover?" (Spring Journal 73, 2005); a review of The Book of Symbols (Taschen 2010) in Quadrant XXXXI (Summer 2011); "The Archetypes are Alive and Well" in Psychological Perspectives (Vol. 55, Issue 1, 2012); "Planting the Golden Flower: A Dream of Hope in the Age of Trump" in Psychological Perspectives (Vol. 62, Issue 1, 2019); By Grief Transformed: Dreams and the Mourning Process (Spring Journal Books, 2010); Images of the Dead in Grief Dreams (Routledge, 2020); and “The Ever-Moving Caravan” in Confronting Death (Luis Moris, ed., Chiron, 2024).