Imię i Nazwisko: Profesor David Tacey

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Research Areas:

• I conduct research in several disciplines and fields of enquiry. These include analytical psychology, literary and cultural studies, continental philosophy, sociology of religion, theology and religious studies.

• Broadly, I have research interests in the recovery of meaning in a postmodern context, and I explore the emergence of spiritual themes and meaning-making in philosophy, literature, youth experience, educational theory, and the experience of nature and environment.

• Presently I am researching the experience and conceptualisation of the sacred in analytical or Jungian psychology.

• From the beginning of my academic career, I have worked as an interdisciplinary scholar, and my first university degree was in philosophy, literary studies, and art history. In my honours degree, I specialised in modernism, existentialism, and surrealism.

• My PhD thesis at the University of Adelaide was in literary studies and analytical psychology, under the supervision of Professor John Colmer and Professor Brian Elliott.

   

• In 1982 I was awarded a Harkness Fellowship from the Commonwealth Fund of New York, and in the United States I conducted a two-year postdoctoral program in the fields of archetypal psychology and comparative mythology, under the supervision of Professor James Hillman.

• In recent years, I have been researching and publishing in a newly emerging academic field called spirituality studies, an area which has emerged out of the interactions of religious studies and theology, depth psychology, sociology, philosophy, and education theory.

• At La Trobe University, I teach courses on spirituality and cultural studies, analytical psychology, and literature. I teach a 4th and 5th year subject on the theme of transcendence in contemporary philosophy, depth psychology and literature, and I alternate this with a subject on ecocriticism and environmental psychology.

Editorial Boards:

I am a member of the editorial boards of these international journals:

• Jung Journal: Culture and Psyche (San Francisco)

• Spring: A Journal of Archetype and Culture (New Orleans)

• International Journal of Psychotherapy and Politics (London and Chicago)

• International Journal of Children’s Spirituality (Brighton, England)

• Spirituality and Health International (London)

Currently working on:

• Spirituality and Mental Health: Jung, Gods, Diseases. Forthcoming 2010.

  
  
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