Dr. Kevin Volkan is a founding faculty member and Professor of Psychology at California State University Channel Islands, where he researches and teaches courses in psychopathology and atypical behaviors, personality theory, as well as Nazi Germany, and Eastern philosophy. He also currently serves on the Graduate Medical Education faculty for the Community Memorial Hospital system in Ventura CA, where he teaches and conducts research with medical residents, and as an adjunct faculty member in California Lutheran University’s clinical psychology doctorate program. https://ciapps.csuci.edu/FacultyBiographies/kevin.volkan

Professor Volkan is the author of Dancing Among the Maenads: The Psychology of Compulsive Drug Use, which is available to download at: https://www.freepsychotherapybooks.org/ebook/dancing-among-the-maenads/

Kevin Volkan is also a working musician, playing guitar in a rock band that performs in the Los Angeles area. Check out Haunted Robots: https://youtu.be/A5fhVkgjnkY and Sisterook – Full show from last year in Hollywood: https://youtu.be/NPO8na2ufM4 as well as playing a local dive bar: https://youtu.be/JtElySO3PVg

This episode is also available to watch at YouTube: https://youtu.be/exreS9MwE5o

The work of Jungian Analysts Robert Bosnak and Jill Fischer is mentioned in this episode: https://www.cyberdreamwork.com/about/

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The track at the end of the episode is "A gentle stroll in wonderland..." from the album "The larval stage of a bookworm" by Carl Abrahamsson, available from Highbrow Lowlife: https://highbrowlowlife.bandcamp.com

Portrait of Professor Kevin Volkan