Karlyn M Ward

Karlyn M. Ward, Ph.D., is an analyst member of The C. G. Jung Institute of San Francisco. She lives and has a private practice across the Golden Gate Bridge from San Francisco, in Marin County, in an old semi-rural neighborhood with no sidewalks. Here it is still possible to see deer (almost daily), fox who (if you're lucky) may come to live in your garden, coyote, great blue herons, and more. Her home and office are surrounded by beautiful gardens, the work of her late husband, Richard Ward, a garden designer. He and the foxes were the inspiration for her book, "Visitation in a Zen Garden."

See also her DVD, "Anchored in the Heart: Redeeming the Dark Feminine" (described below) at:

http://www.amazon.com/Anchored-Heart-Redeeming-Dark-Feminine/dp/B000FA7DV4/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1335727758&sr=8-2

She holds a B.A. from Carleton College, a Master's degree in social work from Western Reserve University (now Case Western Reserve), a Ph.D. from The Institute for Clinical Social Work (now The Sanville Institute), and was certified as a Jungian analyst by The C. G. Jung Institute of San Francisco. She is trained in the Bonny Method of music therapy, and is a Fellow in the Association for Music and Imagery.

Music is the river that has run through her life, later joined by a major tributary called The Feminine. Trained as a pianist, she became a church organist, and has always sung in choruses, currently the Marin Symphony Chorus. She once helped found, and then managed, a community orchestra. Music is almost always in her head, and the challenge is to try to understand "why this piece, why now?" She has written and lectured extensively on music and psyche. She uses great music and art to amplify her study of Mary of Magdala on her DVD titled "Anchored in the Heart: Redeeming the Dark Feminine." She has also lectured extensively on this topic, and led trips to Magdalene territory in Provence.

Publications:

1988: "Music, Imagery, and Affect: A Cross-Cultural Exploration of Responses to Chinese and Western Classical Music." (Dissertation-Karlyn Johnson Hanks)

1992: "Music, Imagery, and Affect: A Cross-Cultural Exploration", in Journal of the Association for Music and Imagery, Vol. 1, No. 1. (Karlyn Johnson Hanks)

2000: "Music and the Archetypal Ground of the Psyche," in The San Francisco Jung Institute Library Journal, Vol. 19, No. 1.

2002: "A Jungian Orientation to the Bonny Method" in Guided Imagery and Music: The Bonny Method and Beyond. (Ed. Kenneth E. Bruscia and Denise E. Grocke.) Gilsom NH: Barcelona Publishers.

2006: "Anchored in the Heart: Redeeming the Dark Feminine." (DVD) Karlyn M. Ward, Ph.D. and Creating Images.

http://www.amazon.com/Anchored-Heart-Redeeming-Dark-Feminine/dp/B000FA7DV4/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1335727758&sr=8-2

2006: "Batter My Heart..." From a C. G. Jung Institute Public Programs Lecture in Conjunction with the World Premiere by the San Francisco Opera of Dr. Atomic, 2005. Composed by John Adams, Libretto and Staging by Peter Sellars. In the San Francisco Jung Institute Library Journal, Volume 25, No. 1, Winter, 2006.

2006: "Music and Psyche at the Edges of Life," unpublished paper given by Karlyn M. Ward, Ph.D., Chair of Bonny Institute National Conference, "Music and Psyche at the Edges of Life," Corte Madera, CA., October 2006.

2012: "Voices" in Marked by Fire, (Ed. Patricia Damery and Naomi Ruth Lowinsky), Fisher King Press.