Morgan Stebbins, MDiv, LMSW, DMin, LP
Morgan’s interest in the inner life began with a repeating series of dreams when he was 10 years old. In these dreams he was chased by a giant dinosaur and then died. This brought up a number of unsettling questions. Before he could answer them, he happened upon Carl Jung’s essay Psychology and Religion when he was 15, and although he didn’t understand a word of it, the die was cast.
He has since studied and practiced different forms of religion, academia, and therapeutic modalities in between stints as a wilderness guide, bike racer, Olympian, and med tech. He has lived Europe, India, South Africa, and the U.S. He became a Zen monk in 1979, joined the Berkeley free clinic for psychoanalysis in 1980, and later wrote his thesis at Berkeley on modern cult phenomena by infiltrating a martial arts cult which he had joined. His Master of Divinity thesis was on Jung and Lacan, called The Structure of the Unconscious in Image and Word. His thesis at the CG Jung Institute was on the 10 Commandments As Path to Individuation, and his doctoral thesis was called The Hermeneutics of Psychological Translation.
Morgan is a supervising analyst and faculty member at the New York-based Jungian Psychoanalytic Association, where he formerly served as the Director of Training. He maintains a private practice in Cold Spring, NY, where he also has a sand tray practice, and also online. He has written several chapters, such as Jung, Gender, and Imagining Sexual Diversity, and also Uncertainty and Healing in the Archetypal End-Times, as well as a Jungian guide to Lacanian concepts. He just published his first book, called Transforming Compulsion: A Jungian Guide to OCD, and he’s working on the next, called Redeeming Narcissus. His motivating interest is to bring the spiritual life to modern people through a practice with the symbolic language of the unconscious.