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About the Teachers

Fanny Brewster, Ph.D., M.F.A.

Dr. Fanny Brewster is a Jungian analyst and Professor at Pacifica Graduate Institute. She completed her doctoral degree at Pacifica Graduate Institute in Clinical Psychology. Dr. Brewster is a writer of nonfiction books including Race and the Unconscious: An Africanist Depth Psychology Perspective on Dreaming and The Racial Complex: A Jungian Perspective on Culture and Race. Her poems have been published in various journals and in Psychological Perspectives Journal where she was the Featured Poet. She has received three Gradiva nominations for her writings from the National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis (NAAP). Dr. Brewster is an international speaker and workshop presenter on Africanist and Jungian Psychology topics. She is a Cave Canem Fellow and recipient of the C.G. Jung Houston Center Fay Lectures Honorarium (2023).

Pat Katsky, Ph.D. has been a core faculty member at Pacifica for almost 25 years, teaching and mentoring students in many of Pacifica’s programs. She was formerly provost and the chair of one of the depth psychology programs..She was certified as a Jungian analyst almost 30 years ago. Her research interests include the religious function of the psyche, the process of becoming a psychotherapist, and the world of dreams.. She has published and lectured on these topics in the United States and abroad. Pat was formerly the president of the C.G. Jung Institute of Los Angeles, and serves regularly on the reviewing and certifying boards of the San Francisco and Los Angeles Jung Institutes. She co-founded a non-profit counseling center in Los Angeles, Counseling West, which served individuals, couples, and families seeking a depth psychotherapeutic approach in charting a path in their lives.

Susan Evergreen Hericks, Phd, has an artistic and psychological approach to being human. Her day to day work involves supporting PGI graduate students in the Depth PhD Integrative Therapy and Healing Practices specialization. As adjunct faculty, Evergreen also teaches the year one Art of Ritual class. An artist and lover of beauty medicine, ceremony, and social justice she has a varied background in academia (English Literature, Theology/Ethics, Depth Psychology), as well as rites of passage work, wilderness guiding, ceremonial play and community art projects.

Juliet Rohde-Brown, Ph.D., is a licensed clinical psychologist and the Chair of the Depth Psychology: Integrative Therapy and Healing Practices doctoral specialization at Pacifica Graduate Institute. She has presented internationally at professional conferences and other venues and has led and co-led retreats and workshops. Her publications may be found in book chapters and in journals such as the Journal of Jungian Scholarly Studies, Psychological Perspectives, and the Journal of Humanistic Psychology, among others.

Dr. Elizabeth Éowyn Nelson, a member of Pacifica’s faculty since 2003, teaches courses in research design, process, methodology, and dissertation development as well as archetypal psychology, and technology. Her books include The Art of Inquiry (coauthored with Joseph Coppin), Psyche’s Knife, and The Art of Jungian Couple Therapy (coauthored with Anthony Delmedico). Dr. Nelson teaches and speaks internationally and has published numerous scholarly papers and book chapters on subjects including animals, dreams, feminism, film, mythology, research, somatics, and technology. She has been a professional writer and editor for 40 years, coaching aspiring authors across many genres and styles. www.elizabethnelson-phd.com

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