Understand yourself and you will be sufficiently understood. – C.G. Jung, Liber Novis
About Michael Marsman
Michael Marsman is a certified Jungian analyst and psychotherapist with over 20 years of experience working with individuals and couples. He maintains a private practice in Berkeley, California and is licensed in California and New York.
Michael is member of the C.G. Jung Institute of San Francisco and the Jungian Psychoanalytic Association (JPA) in New York and is a faculty member and supervisor/consultant for both organizations’ analyst training programs. He is also on the faculty of the Oriental Academy for Analytical Psychology/China Society for Analytical Psychology in Guangzhou, China and the Bangalore Society of Analytical Psychology.
Michael’s main areas of research focus on Hindu mythology and gender and sexuality. Among his published works are “Bringing Dharma to Earth: The Sabarimalai Pilgrimage and Ayyappan Myth” in Spring Journal (2013), “Transgenderism and Transformation: An Attempt at a Jungian Understanding” in the Journal of Analytical Psychology (2017) and “Kali: In Praise of the Goddess” in Psychological Perspectives (2019).
Michael teaches and presents nationally and internationally on diverse topics such as Hindu mythology, analytic ethics, dream interpretation, gender and sexuality (including transgenderism), addiction, archetypes and the collective unconscious and amplification. He is a former board member and treasurer of the Philemon Foundation and of the Jungian Psychoanalytic Association. Prior to becoming a psychotherapist, Michael had a career as a financial/business professional.
Michael works with people in-person and virtually in California and virtually in New York and internationally.
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