A List of My Ten Books, Lectures, and Workshops
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📚 Book Publications by Steven Herrmann
Explore the published works of Steven Herrmann, Jungian educator and author, whose books span psychology, spirituality, poetic practice, and American visionary traditions.
🔍 Featured Titles (Newest First):
- Murray Stein: Individuation, Transformation, and the Ways to the Self (2025). London: Routledge
- Vocational Dreams: Calling Archetypes and Nuclear Symbols (2024). USA / Singapore: Strategic Books Publishing and Rights Co., LLC.
- Meister Eckhart and C.G. Jung: On the Vocation of the Self (2024). Bloomington, Indiana: iUniverse Publishing.
- Swami Vivekananda and C.G. Jung: Yoga in the West (2022). USA / Singapore: Strategic Books Publishing and Rights Co., LLC.
- William James and C.G. Jung: Doorways to the Self (2020). Oberlin, Ohio: Analytical Psychology Press.
- Emily Dickinson: A Medicine Woman for Our Times (2018). Cheyenne, WY: Fisher King Press.
- William Everson: The Shaman’s Call, Expanded Edition (2016). New York: Eloquent Books.
- Spiritual Democracy: The Wisdom of Early American Visionaries for the Journey Forward (2015). Berkeley: North Atlantic Books (Sacred Activism Series), Foreword by John Beebe.
- Walt Whitman: Shamanism, Spiritual Democracy, and the World Soul (2010)Durham: Eloquent Books.
- William Everson: The Shaman’s Call (2009). New York: Eloquent Books
(Book Ordering: see the links listed on My Blog page above).
TEACHING, Lectures, and WORKSHOP EXPERIENCES: 1980-2026
UC Santa Cruz (UCSC), CA:
Fall 1980-Winter 1981: Teaching Assistant for William Everson’s course “Birth of a Poet.”
John F. Kennedy University (JFKU), Career Development Program, Orinda, CA:
Dec. 6, 1989: “Vocation and Psychological Types.”
July 10, 1990: “Christ as an Exemplar for Vocational Development.”
July 1990: “On the Nuclear Self.”
August 1990: “Vocational Clarification through Dream.”
July 18, 1991: “The Vision Quest in Native North American Indian Cultures.”
August 3, 1991: “Spirituality and Work.”
August 1991: “Vocational Dreams and Synchronistic Events.”
July 16, 1995: “Career Vision.”
John F. Kennedy University (JFKU), School of Professional Psychology, Orinda, CA:
Fall 1990: “The Father-Son Relationship.”
Summer 1992: “Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder: Diagnosis and Treatment in Childhood.”
The C. G. Jung Institute of Chicago, Il, The North American Conference for Jungian Analysts and Candidates:
Sept. 23, 2005: “The Emergence of the Cultural Complex in Walt Whitman.”
The C. G. Jung Institute of San Francisco, CA, Extended Education Program:
March 26 & 27, 2004: “Melville’s Moby-Dick/Islam and the West,” with Jungian analyst Tom Singer.
Jan. 7-Feb. 11, 2008: “The Child: A Yearlong Seminar on Child Development and Clinical Practice”: “Early Latency (6-8 yr.).”
March 1, 2008: “The Collective Unconscious, Archetypes, and Active Imagination.”
January 5-26, 2009: “The Unfolding Self of the Child: Imagination and Play,” “Aggression and violence and development of the masculine in a 5-9-year-old boy.”
November 5, 2022: “William James and C.G. Jung: Doorways to the Self.”
The C. G. Jung Institute of San Francisco, CA, Analyst Membership Meeting:
September 8, 2022: “Spiritual Democracy and its Current Relevance in Analytic Work.”
C. G. Jung Institute of Santa Fe, Extended Education Program: October 10, 2020, “Spiritual Democracy, Jung, and the American Psyche.”
Embassy of the Free Mind: Amsterdam, Holland / Netherlands: November 24, 2023: In the Footsteps of Jakob Böhme: “Meister Eckhart and C.G. Jung: Practical Teachings on the Birth of Christ in the Human Soul.”
Netherlands Association for Analytical Psychology (NAAP): February 24, 2023, “William James & C. G. Jung.”
North-South Conference for Jungian Analysts and Candidates, Carmel, CA: March 2, 2007: “The Case of Willy: Transformation of Terror into Joy.”
IAAP-IAJS ETH Conference, Zürich, Switzerland:
July 3, 2008: “The Case of Jacob: The Emergence of Moby Dick in the Dreams of a Five-Year-Old Boy.”
The Journal of Analytical Psychology (JAP) IX International Conference, San Francisco, CA:
May 30, 2009: “The Transcendent Function in Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick.”
International House (I-House), UC Berkeley, CA:
February 10. 2011: “Walt Whitman’s Global Vision of Spiritual Democracy.”
East Bay CAMFT, St. Mark’s United Methodist Church, Orinda, CA.
March 10, 2012: “Walt Whitman’s vision of Same-Sex marriage and the call of MFT’s.”
Berkeley City College & UC Santa Cruz (UCSC), “The Birth of a Poet: William Everson Centennial:
September 21, 2012: “William Everson: The Vocational Archetype,” Berkeley.
Oct. 20, 2012: Event organizer and presenter, “Committee Chair’s Welcome,” and “The Shamanic Archetype in William Everson’s Poetry,” UCSC, Kresge College.
Mt. Shasta Sisson Museum, Joaquin Miller Conference Program. Mt. Shasta, CA:
October 11, 2013: “Poetry and Praise of Mt. Shasta and its Native Peoples.”
October 12, 2013: “Joaquin Miller’s Vision of Spiritual Democracy: Integrating his Dualisms into the Unity of the American Character.”
Unitarian-Universalist (UU) Church of Berkeley, Kensington, CA:
February 6, 2011: “Walt Whitman’s Vision of Spiritual Democracy,” with conversant Matthew Fox.
January 8, 2012: “Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick.”
December 16, 2012: “William Everson on the Shamanic Archetype.”
November 17, 2013: “Meister Eckhart: Leaving God for God.”
November 2, 2014: “Spiritual Democracy.”
February 28, 2015: “Early Visionaries of Spiritual Democracy: Walt Whitman & Swami Vivekananda.”
October 25, 2015: “C. G. Jung & Teilhard de Chardin: Peacemakers in an Age of Spiritual Democracy.”
September 25, 2016: “Vocational Dreams.”
September 17, 2017: “The Future of Transpersonal Psychology.”
April 22, 2018: “Emily Dickinson: A Medicine Woman for our Times.”
October 6, 2019: “Carl Jung’s Spirituality: Living the Symbolic Life.”
September 19, 2021: “William James and C.G. Jung: Doorways to the Self.”
October 9, 2022: “Swami Vivekananda and C.G. Jung: Yoga in the West.”
Robinson Jeffers Association Conference, Carmel-by-the-Sea, CA:
May 26, 2012: “The Shamanic Archetype in Robinson Jeffers Poetry.”
February 15, 2014: “Jeffers, Whitman, and the Cosmos,” and “Panel Discussion.”
IAAP & IAJS Conference, Yale University, Connecticut:
July 4, 2015: “C. G. Jung’s Vision of Spiritual Democracy.”
Sofia University, Institute for Transpersonal Psychology (ITP), Palo Alto, CA.
Sept. 2015: “William James & C. G. Jung: The Emergence of the Field of Transpersonal Psychology.”
January 13-March 16, 2016: “History of Transpersonal Psychology: James, Jung, and Vivekananda.”
DC Integral Emergence, Washington DC.
August 9, 2018, with Neil Richardson, “Integral Emily Dickinson: Mystic and Shaman.”
Lone Star College, Texas:
May 2, 2019, Writers in Performance: “Walt Whitman's Birthday Celebration.”
National Cathedral, Washington DC:
June 1, 2019, “Walt Whitman 200 Festival, ‘Beyond Psycho: The Musical Genius of Bernard Herrmann.’”
Eckhart @ Erfurt, Germany:
June 16-21, 2019. Art as Meditation with Matthew Fox, “Dreams and Journaling with Eckhart.”
Walt Whitman Initiative:
August 27, 2020, “Walt Whitman and Carl Jung, Selective Affinities,” with Matt Miller, Steven Herrmann and Jay Sherry. YouTube Video Channel WWI: New York City Cultural Outreach Group.
Analytical Psychology Club of San Francisco:
September 13, 2020, “Vocational Dreams & Synchronistic Phenomena,” with Steven Herrmann, PhD, MFT. YouTube Video uploaded at Analytical Psychology Club of San Francisco APC-SF.
September 11, 2022: “Swami Vivekananda and C.G. Jung: Yoga in the West.
Bangalore Society for Analytical Psychology, India:
April 5, 2024, “Swami Vivekananda, C.G. Jung, and Spiritual Democracy.”