The Beautiful One Has Come:
A Discussion with Five Black Women of Depth Psychology
Saturday, August 15th
10-11:30am PT
1-2:30pm EDT
Online event via Zoom - registration limited
In English, the Egyptian Queen, Nefertiti’s name means “The Beautiful One Has Come.” In this salon with five of the contributors to the book, Seeing in the Dark: Wisdom Works by Black Women in Depth Psychology, we’ll hear about the experiences of Black Women within the world of Jungian Psychology, and inquire into the goddesses and feminine figures who influenced each of their lives and work.
Dr. Sherrie Sims Allen, Dr. Marcy De Veaux, Dr. Kimberly Howell, Dr. Patricia Taylor, and Dr. Sharon D. Johnson all received their doctorates from Pacifica Graduate Institute in Depth Psychology.
While finding their experiences as Black Women scholars rare, and the published writings even rarer, they gathered their scholarship together in a single collection.
In this salon, each author will present some of her work, but through an organic and conversational style. They’ll explore questions about how they arrived at Depth Psychology, what’s most alive about their work now, and what they hope for the future of Depth Psychology.
What is Depth Psychology?
The field of Jungian Psychology goes by many names, including Analytical Psychology and Complex Psychology. “Depth Psychology” is often a shorthand for this, but includes the psychologies in the Freudian and Jungian traditions that acknowledge the existence of the unconscious.
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About The Presenters:
Marcella “Marcy” De Veaux, Ph.D.
Marcy De Veaux is a media expert and educator with decades of experience in entertainment public relations, diversity best practices, and coaching. She is Associate Director of Faculty Development and a tenured Professor for the Department of Journalism at California State University, Northridge. Dr. De Veaux also holds a Master’s degree in Human Resource Management from Lesley College, in Cambridge, MA. Her work appears in several publications Imaginative Inquiry: Innovative Approaches to Interdisciplinary Research and the recently published Teaching Daughters of the Dust as a Womanist Film and the Black Arts Aesthetic of Filmmaker Julie Dash (Peter Lang). She co-edited Pacifica Graduate Institute: An Alumni Tribute to 40 Years of Tending Soul in and of the World. Currently, Dr. De Veaux arranges workshops on unconscious bias, diversity, equity, inclusion, and cultural competencies for higher education, small to medium-sized businesses, non-profit organizations, and media companies.
Kimberly Howell, Ph.D.
Kimberly Howell is a body positive activist and diversity educator who uses mindfulness techniques with both individual and corporate clients. Her doctoral dissertation entitled, “Peek- A-Boo! I See You: Capturing the Story and Image of Invisible Beauty in Los Angeles” highlights the celebrity culture of Los Angeles and how place affects both psyche and soma. Dr. Howell has spoken internationally on topics such as feminist consumerism as well as engaging depth psychological practices in corporate learning environments.
Sharon D. Johnson, Ph.D.
Sharon D. Johnson is a screenwriter, dream educator, and scholar of television, film, and African American arts; literature; and culture. She has been a published critical and feature story writer for over 30 years, and a member of the Writers Guild of America, West since 1993. She served as Chair of the Writers Guild Committee of Black Writers from 1999 to 2003. Dr. Johnson has published and presented her precedent original research on Zora Neale Hurston and Langston Hughes, and on the ancient depth psychological practice of dream work, via numerous venues in the field. Her essay, “Conscious Daughters: Psychological Migration, Individuation, and the Declaration of Black Female Identity in Daughters of the Dust” is included in the recently published anthology, Teaching Daughters of the Dust as a Womanist Film and the Black Arts Aesthetic of Filmmaker Julie Dash (Peter Lang). She is a graduate of Barnard College and holds an MA in Media Studies from the New School. Dr. Johnson has taught screenwriting; Black popular culture; and African American literature at California State University Northridge, and her original senior seminar on race; gender; and screen adaptations at Emerson College Los Angeles.
Sherrie Sims Allen, Ph.D.
Sherrie Sims Allen focuses her work on exploring the cultural wounds of racism, sexism, feelings of invisibility, and women and rage, which she re-visions as a socially valuable expression in her dissertation, Transforming Rage: Revisioning the Myth of the Angry Black Woman. Dr. Sims Allen has made presentations at both the Society of Humanistic Psychology and the Jungian Society for Scholarly Studies conferences. Dr. Sims Allen is a practitioner of the Myers Briggs Topology Instrument (MBTI), which she and her husband, Dr. Melvin Allen, utilize in their nationally presented relationship seminars and workshops for couples and singles. Her approach affirms that when relationships work, families work; when families work, communities work, and when communities work, the world works. The Drs. Allen are co- authors of the forthcoming book, The Allen Method: Exploring Relationships Through the Lens of Myers Briggs.
Patricia Taylor, Ph.D.
Patricia Taylor is the Chairperson for Special Education Programs in the LaFetra College of Education at the University of LaVerne in Southern California. Dr. Taylor is also founder and Co-Chair of the university’s Center for Neurodiversity, Learning and Wellness. Her area of specialization is in assisting learners who learn in atypical ways find their ways of knowing and learning first by acknowledging their unique gifts and then by figuring out how to honor and share those gifts. Dr. Taylor’s studies and degree in Depth Psychology informs this process and has led to the unveiling of the original meaning of the idea of enough in western lexicon. This has also led to a deep appreciation of what she calls word stories and how words, as Michael Meade states, are merely condensed stories waiting to be told.