Steven Herrmann PhD, MFT a Jungian literary critic and a scholar in the fields of American poetry, Jamesian pragmatism, analytical psychology, and spirituality. Dr. Herrmann has presented papers at the C. G. Jung Institutes of San Francisco, Chicago, and Zurich, and he has published five books that have been well received, nationally and internationally.
His analytic research has focused on the subject of vocational dreams as doorways to the self, an idea that came to him while he was meandering through the hallways of Yale Divinity School, before delivering a talk entitled, C. G. Jung's Vision of Spiritual Democracy, during the Summer of 2015―at the same University, coincidentally, where William James and C. G. Jung both lectured.
His interest in James began while he was a teaching assistant at the University of Santa Cruz, where he first read James's 1902 book The Varieties of Religious Experience. It is not theology, doctrine, or religious dogma that interests Steven most as an author, but similar to James and Jung, it is the phenomenology of spiritual experience, plain and simple: the pragmatic, analytic, scientific view of the psyche, and its self-path towards health, healing, wholeness, and human love.
Steven Herrmann is also a Jungian analyst practicing in Oakland, California, and an analyst member of the C. G. Jung Institute of San Francisco. He has lived and worked in the Bay Area his whole life. Steven is the father of a son and a husband. He loves to garden, cook, hike, swim, run, write, and water redwood trees.
