Cultural Unconscious in Research: Integrating Multicultural and Depth Paradigms in Qualitative Research

Chair and faculty member at Pacifica Graduate Institute, a graduate institution dedicated to preservation of clinical training that honours depth and human science traditions in psychology. She integrates both Jungian and psychoanalytic (specifically post-colonial) perspectives in her writing. Her scholarship spans such topics as gender/feminism, migration, xenophobia, human trafficking and human diversity. Her current focus is on addressing the monoculture of bio-behavioral, reductionist and patriarchal practices and theories in psychology and beyond, including critique of ‘positive' psychology, dominance of cognitive-behaviourism, unexamined acceptance of animal-based behaviourist research and colonization of indigenous knowledge. Email:

Licensed clinical psychologist, offering psychological services and high performance coaching to people of all ages and organizations in New York City and remotely online. She specializes in providing evidence-based, integrative, complementary and alternative treatments that utilize the latest research on meditative and transcendental therapies. She received her Ph.D. from Pacifica Graduate Institute (USA). Email:

Founder and executive director of Project Satori, a developing non-profit organization committed to providing mental health care to survivors of sex trafficking and their families, and promoting education and advocacy around the sex trafficking pandemic, both domestically and abroad. In clinical settings and in the non-profit sector, Dr. Rajan has spent nearly 20 years working with child, adolescent and adult survivors of physical, sexual, and psychological trauma. An internationally published author and speaker, Dr. Rajan's work is varied across disciplines, with publications in journals and books including ‘Rhythms of a life letting go: images of story, self and meaning from Life of Pi, directed by Ang Lee', Spring Journal: Jung and India, Vol. 90, Nov. 2013; and ‘Voices from the void: a depth psychological reconceptualization of sex trafficking in modern-day India', Psychotherapy and Politics International, June 2011, 9, 2, 97-102. She is currently in private practice in Beverly Hills, CA, USA, and is working on a book recounting the experiences of sex trafficking survivors in Kolkata, India. Email:

Licensed psychologist engaged in private practice in Pasadena, California. She founded the American School Macedonia, a non-profit school (K-12 grade) offering education to the ethnically diverse population in Macedonia. She is currently a member of the Rose City Center Training Committee, a non-profit clinic offering psychoanalytic psychotherapy to economically disadvantaged people. Email:

Jungian-based private therapy practice in Pasadena and works as adjunct faculty at Pacifica Graduate Institute in Carpinteria, California. He is a popular presenter of workshops and talks throughout the state of California on LGBTQ issues and on dream therapy, his two areas of specialization. Dr. Thomas holds a masters degree from the USC School of Social Work, and a Ph.D. in depth psychotherapy from Pacifica Graduate Institute. Email: ; Phone: (626) 524-2406.