Contributors to the Issue

Thomas Gitz-Johansen, Ph.D., (Denmark) is associate professor at Department of People and Technology, Roskilde University, Denmark. He has published in the fields of education and childhood. His publications include psychoanalytical and analytical psychological discussions of education (titles translated from Danish): ‘Pedagogy between adaptation and growth: a study of implications of psychoanalysis for educational practice’, Dansk Pædagogisk Tidsskrift, 2011, 3, 17-26, and ‘The importance of imagination: a contribution to the re-enchantment of childhood’, Dansk Pædagogisk Tidsskrift, 2014, 3, 46-55. He is currently training as a Jungian analyst at the C.G. Jung Institute in Copenhagen, Denmark. Email: gitz@ruc.dk

John Merchant, Ph.D., (Australia) is a training analyst with the Australian and New Zealand Society of Jungian Analysts and is an accredited supervisor with the Psychology Board of Australia. He has run adult education courses in analytical psychology at the University of Sydney for many years as well as workshops and seminars in Australia, New Zealand, the UK, Europe and the USA. His recent book, Shamans and Analysts: New Insights on the Wounded Healer (Routledge), looks at Siberian shamanism and the parallels between it and contemporary psychotherapy. Other books include Psychotherapy and Counselling: Reflections on Practice (Oxford University Press, ) and Research in Analytical Psychology (Routledge, forthcoming). He is in private practice in Sydney, Australia. See for further details. Email:

William Meredith-Owen (UK) is a supervising analyst of the Society of Analytical Psychology and the British Psychotherapy Federation, and also teaches and supervises at the West Midlands Institute of Psychotherapy. He is the joint editor-in-chief of the Journal of Analytical Psychology to which he has contributed papers addressing the interface of Jungian and Kleinian practice, Winnicott's critique of Jung, and the