Craig Chalquist, MS PhD has worked as a family therapist, conflict resolution facilitator, and group facilitator. He earned his PhD at Pacifica Graduate Institute, where he studied depth psychology with an ecological approach. A thesis adviser, dissertation coordinator, and research director, he teaches depth psychology, ecopsychology, family therapy, couples therapy, brief therapy, theories of therapy, theories of personality, social science research, history of psychology, Jung, William James, dream analysis, transpersonal psych, and mythology at five Bay Area schools, including Sonoma State University, Argosy University, and John F. Kennedy University, a school dedicated to global transformation.
For his doctoral work he explored the history of California one mission city and county at a time while inspecting its geography, ecology, infrastructure, culture, lore, and imaginal life to synthesize a "psychoanalysis of place" to trace connections between the trauma and health of the land and the symptoms and syndromes of its inhabitants. He concluded that 1. the story of one's life and well-being cannot be deeply understood without taking environmental forces into account, and 2. valuing this deep connection to place required a "planetary psychology," or terrapsychology, capable of grasping this mutuality of self and world, psyche and surround as a means to a "deep homecoming" beyond a surface sustainability.
His book Terrapsychology: Reengaging the Soul of Place came out February 2, 2007, and he is co-editor with Linda Buzzell-Saltzman of the forthcoming Ecotherapy: Healing with Nature in Mind, Sierra Club's sequel to Ecopsychology: Restoring the Earth, Healing the Mind. He has written for AlterNet, HopeDance Magazine, The Journal of Critical Psychology, Spring, Dream Network Journal, Psychological Perspectives, and four anthologies, and has been interviewed by the Los Angeles Times, the Conejo Valley Daily News, and, more recently, San Francisco Magazine. He lives and works in the Bay Area and is a Member of the Foundation for Mythological Studies and on the board of the International Association for Ecotherapy. His goals include establishing a nonprofit school to offer certificate programs for depth psychology and terrapsychology. In spare moments he dreams of settling down into a cottage farm by the Pacific.
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