Michael Vannoy Adams, D.Phil, L.C.S.W.

B.A. 1970, Texas Christian University
M.A. 1972, University of Texas at Austin
D.Phil 1976, University of Sussex (England)
M.S.W. 1993, New York University
Certificate in Psychoanalysis, 2000, C.G. Jung Institute of New York

· Jungian psychology
· Dreams
· Mythology
· Imagination

· Faculty, The New School
· Faculty & supervisor, Jungian Psychoanalytic Association
· Faculty & supervisor, Object Relations Institute for Psychotherapy & Psychoanalysis

Three Gradiva Awards from the National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis

Books

Adams, M.V. (2012), For Love of the Imagination: Interdisciplinary Applications of Jungian Psychoanalysis, Hove and New York: Routledge.

Adams, M.V. (2010), The Mythological Unconscious, 2nd rev. ed., Putnam, CT: Spring Publications.

Adams, M.V. (2004), The Fantasy Principle: Psychoanalysis of the Imagination: Hove and New York: Brunner-Routledge.

Adams, M.V. (1996), The Multicultural Imagination: “Race,” Color, and the Unconscious, London and New York: Routledge.


Journal Articles

Adams, M.V. (2012), “The Invisible Hand and the Economic Unconscious: The Most Important Image of the Last 250 Years,” in P. Bennett, ed., Montreal 2010: Facing Multiplicity: Psyche, Nature, Culture: Proceedings of the 18th International Congress for Analytical Psychology, Einsiedeln: Daimon Verlag: 547-558.

Adams, M.V. (2011), “The Voluptuous Horror of the Vagina: Kembra Pfahler and the Impenetrable Unconscious,” in L. Gangitano, ed., Dead Flowers, Philadelphia: Vox Populi and New York: Participant, Inc.: 184-189.

Adams, M.V. (2009), “Obama and Icarus: Political Heroism, ‘Newspaper Mythology,’ and the Economic Crisis of 2008,” Spring: A Journal of Archetype and Culture, 81: 291-318.

Adams, M.V. (2009), “The Sable Venus on the Middle Passage: Images of the Transatlantic Slave Trade,” in P. Bennett, ed., Cape Town 2007: Journeys, Encounters: Clinical, Communal, Cultural: Proceedings of the 17th International Congress for

Analytical Psychology, Einsiedeln: Daimon Verlag: 161-166.

Adams, M.V. (2008), “The Archetypal School,” in P. Young-Eisendrath and T. Dawson, eds., The Cambridge Companion to Jung, 2nd rev. ed., Cambridge: Cambridge University Press: 107-124.

Adams, M.V. (2008), “The Butterfly Woman: Being Stuck and Getting Unstuck,” Quadrant, 38, 1: 40-63.

Adams, M.V. (2008), “Does Myth (Still) Have a Function in Jungian Studies? Modernity, Metaphor, and Psycho-Mythology,” in L. Huskinson, ed., Dreaming the Myth Onwards: New Directions in Jungian Therapy and Thought, Hove and New York: Routledge: 81-90.

Adams, M.V. (2008), “Imaginology: The Jungian Study of the Imagination,” in S. Marlan, ed., Archetypal Psychologies: Reflections in Honor of James Hillman, New Orleans: Spring Journal Books: 225-242.

Adams, M.V. (2006), “The Islamic Cultural Unconscious in the Dreams of a Contemporary Muslim Man,” Journal of Jungian Theory and Practice, 8, 1: 31-40.

Adams, M.V. (2002), “African-American Dreaming and the Beast of Racism: The Cultural Unconscious in Jungian Analysis,” Psychoanalytic Psychology, 19, 1: 182-198.

Adams, M.V. (2002), “Mythological Knowledge: Just How Important Is It in Jungian (and Freudian) Analysis?” Harvest, 48,1: 7-21.

Adams, M.V. (2000), “Compensation in the Service of Individuation: Phenomenological Essentialism and Jungian Dream Interpretation,” Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 10, 1: 127-142.