Kevin Volkan

Kevin Volkan is Professor of Psychology at California State University Channel Islands, Adjunct Professor of Clinical Psychology at California Lutheran University, and Adjunct Faculty at Pacifica Graduate Institute. He is also a Licensed Psychologist in California. Kevin received a BA in Biology from the University of California Santa Cruz where he also was a student of Jungian Beat poet and former Catholic monk William Everson. He went on to earn an MA in Archetypal and Depth Psychology from Sonoma State University, an EdD in Educational & Counseling Psychology from Northern Illinois University, PhD in Clinical Psychology from the Center for Psychological Studies, and a Masters of Public Health from Harvard University. Kevin has worked in private practice as a psychoanalytic psychotherapist and as a psychologist in a state hospital. In addition to his training in Depth Psychology he has practiced various humanistic and existential therapies as well as applied behavior analysis. Kevin now practices as an Embodied Imagination Therapist. He completed an intensive three year training with Jungian analyst and James Hillman protege Robert Bosnak, who has extended Hillman’s ideas into a form of imaginal and somatic dreamwork. Kevin has published three books – Dancing Among the Maenads: The Psychology of Compulsive Drug Use, Schizophrenia: Science, Psychoanalysis, and Culture, and How the Mind Works: Concepts and Cases in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy. His next book which will examine human aggression and war will be published this winter.