Imię i Nazwisko: Dr. Roderick Main MA Oxon., PhD Lanc.

Director, Centre for Psychoanalytic Studies

Research interests:

• Historical, philosophical, religious and cultural contexts of analytical psychology;

• Depth psychology, religion and modernity;

• Synchronicity;

• Myth.

Additional information:

I am currently supervising the following PhD students:

• Kevin Lu Simultaneity and Sequence: A Jungian Approach to the Past

• Mathew Mather A study of the alchemical Mercurius, from the perspective of Analytical Psychology

• Christina Sjöström To what extent is New Age Spiritual Development Qualitatively Similar to Jungian Individuation?

• Teodora Velletri Mircea Eliade and Depth Psychology

• Marcel Van Den Akker The concept of Renunciation in Religion and analytical Psychoanalysis

I have supervised the following successful doctoral theses:

• Christine Driver, 'The God Representation and the Shadow' (2009, D. An. Psych.)

• Lloyd Keane, 'Routes of Wholeness: Jung and the Western Esoteric Tree of Life' (2006, PhD)

• Trudy Bendayan, 'Ecce Mulier: Nietzsche and the Eternal Feminine—An Analytical Psychological Perspective' (2005, PhD)

• Lucy Huskinson, 'Nietzsche and Jung: The whole self in the union of opposites' (2002, PhD, co-supervised with Professor Simon Critchley)

Publications:

Recent Publications

Main, R., 'Jung as a Modern Esotericist', in G. Heuer (ed.) Sacral Revolutions (London and New York: Routledge, 2009).

Main, R., 'Religion, Science, and Synchronicity', in L. Storm (ed.) Synchronicity: Multiple Perspectives on Meaningful Coincidence (Pari, Italy: Pari Publishing, 2008).

Main, R., 'Revelations of Chance', Watkins Review (2008) p. 18.

Main, R., 'Psychology of religion: An overview of its history and current status', Religion Compass 2:4 (2008) pp. 708-33.

Main, R., 'Secularisation and the "holistic milieu": social and psychological perspectives', Religion Compass 2:3 (2008) pp. 365-84.

Main, R., 'Synchronicity and analysis: Jung and after', European Journal of Psychotherapy and Counselling 9:4 (2007) pp. 359-71.

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