The Human Body is the Collective Unconscious: Archetypal Images as Innate Embodied Metaphors

(USA) is an Attending Physician at Eastern State Hospital in Lexington, Kentucky, Clinical Faculty at University of Kentucky, Courtesy Faculty at the Billings Clinic, and Adjunct Professor for University of Louisville, Department of Psychiatry. He has authored numerous publications in the field of consciousness studies, Jungian psychology, neuroscience, mythology, philosophy, anthropology, and the psychology of religion. His published books include: The Neurobiology of the Gods: How the Brain Shapes the Recurrent Imagery of Myth and Dreams (Routledge, 2012), Healing Symbols in Psychotherapy: A Ritual Approach (Routledge, 2016), Magical Consciousness, co-authored with anthropologist Susan Greenwood (Routledge, 2017), Understanding Dreams and Other Spontaneous Images (Routledge, 2018), and Archetypal Ontology, with philosopher and psychoanalyst Jon Mills (Routledge, 2023). He has delivered over 60 lectures, workshops and essays in peer-reviewed journals on the above topics and has been invited to present at conferences on these topics in the US, Germany, Italy, Switzerland and Ireland. Website: .