CURRICULUM VITAE/ Resume
- PERSONAL DATA
Name: Charles Asher (805-705-2451)
633 Cherry Street
Santa Rosa, CA 95404 Email: charles@drcharlesasher. Website: drcharlesasher.com
Summary of Accomplishments:
Educated, Experienced, Clergy, Jungian Analyst, Licensed Marriage Family Therapist, Former Provost of a Graduate School in Depth Psychology
Seventeen plus years of executive leadership roles in developing a depth psychological accredited educational institution, including numerous teaching roles. Extensive educational training, experience and practice in the relationship and integration of psychology, psychotherapy and theology and religious practice with emphasis in Jungian psychology and the western Christian traditions.
Published novelist, nonfiction writer, California Licensed Marriage Family Therapist, Research Psychoanalyst under the California Medical Board and extensive experience as a practicing certified Jungian analyst and an ordained Episcopalian clergy.
Forty plus years of counseling experience as a pastor, Jungian analyst and Marriage Family Therapist.
- EDUCATION
1974 - Certified Jungian Analyst: Diploma C. G Jung Institute for Analytical Psychology, New York City (Five-Year Training Program - Individual and Group Supervision, Personal Analysis, Theoretical Courses)
1973 - Doctor of Ministry in Pastoral Counseling: Department of Clinical Studies, Andover Newton Theological School, Newton Center, MA
1970 - Master of Arts in Psychology: New School for Social Research, New York City
1967 - Master of Divinity: Union Theological Seminary, New York City
1964 - Bachelor of Science: University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin
III PROFESSIONAL DATA
- ACADEMIC AND ADMINISTRATIVE APPOINTMENTS
CURRENT:
EDUCATIONAL AND BUSINESS CONSULTANT
PRIVATE PRACTICE AS JUNGIAN ANALYST AND MARRIANGE FAMILY THERAPIST, PETALUMA AND SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA
EPISCOPALIAN PRIEST, PRIEST ASSOCIATE, ST. JOHN’S EPISCOPAL CHURCH, PETALUMA, CALIFORNIA
Career History:
Private practice: l970 to present in Santa Rosa, CA.
PROVOST - PACIFICA GRADUATE INSTITUTE
(1996-2005)
Core Faculty, Professor of Psychology, 1988-2005
Pacifica Graduate Institute
Carpinteria, CA 93013
Academic Vice President
Academic Dean
Core Faculty, Professor of Psychology
Pacifica Graduate Institute
Carpinteria, CA
1994 - 1996
Acting Dean - MA Program
Core Faculty, Professor of Psychology
Pacifica Graduate Institute
Carpinteria, CA
1993 - 1994
Dean, Ph.D. Program
Core Faculty, Professor of Psychology
Chair and Advisor for Dissertation Committees
Pacifica Graduate Institute
Carpinteria, CA
1988 - 1993
Santa Barbara Continuing Education
Santa Barbara, CA
1987 - 1988
Faculty
- G. Jung Educational Center
Houston, Texas
1983 - 1986
National Institute for the Psychotherapies (Faculty)
1975 - 1976
- CLINICAL
Private Practice, Marriage Family Therapist
Jungian Analyst, Santa Barbara, CA (1987 - )
- G. Jung Educational Center (Private Practice and
Teaching Faculty)
Houston, Texas
1983 - 1986
Pastoral Counseling Center (Director and Founder)
F.U.M.C.
Santa Monica, California
1980 - 1981
Westport Pastoral Counseling Center (Co-Director)
- G. Jung Educational Center
Westport, Connecticut
1977 - 1979
Tenafly-Englewood Pastoral Counseling Center (Director)
New Jersey
1972 - 1976
Counseling and Psychotherapy Center (Staff)
Fairlawn, New Jersey
1970 - 1974
Foundation for Religion and Mental Health (Staff)
New York City
1970 - 1972
- G. Jung Institute (Trainee)
New York City
1969 - 1974
- PASTORAL APPOINTMENTS
United Methodist Minister, Elder in Full Connection
1968 - 1994
McAllen First United Methodist Church
Associate Pastor 1982 - 1983
Westport Pastoral Counseling Center
Co-Director
1977 - 1979
Tenafly Pastoral Counseling Center
Director
Tenafly, New Jersey
l975 - 1977
St. Paul's United Methodist Church
Student Pastor
West New York, New Jersey
1968 - 1969
Melvindale United Methodist Church
Pastor
Melvindale, Michigan
l967 - 1968
Hillcrest Center for Children
Chaplain
Bedford Hills, New York
1966 - 1967
Mountainview United Methodist Church
Student Assistant
Wayne, New Jersey
1965 - 1966
United Methodist Church
Summer Assistant
Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin
l961 - 1963
- PUBLICATIONS
“Secrets, Lies and Lapses”, Jung Journal: Culture and Psyche, Volume 9, Number 4, 2015, pp. 76-79 Print ISSN 1934-2039.
“The Good Enough Prayer”, Jung Journal: Culture and Psyche, Volume 8, Number 4, 2014 pp. 65-68 Print ISNN1934-2039.
“How Becoming Is the Divine Self”, Charles Asher, Jung Journal: Culture and Psyche, Volume 8, Number 2, pp.8-19. 2014. Print ISSN 1934-2039.
Charles W. Asher (2012): Riting Myth, Mythic Writing: Plotting Your Personal Story. (2012). By Dennis Patrick Slattery. Carmel, CA: Fisher King Press., Psychological Perspectives: A Quarterly Journal of Jungian Thought, 55:4, 494-495(reviewed by Charles Asher).
Simon’s Crossing. A Novel (with Dennis Patrick Slattery) iUniverse Press, Bloomington, IN, 2010. (www.iuniverse. com.
“The Contemplative Self, The Spiritual Journey and Therapeutic Work,” in Depth Psychology: Meditations in the Field, edited by Dennis Patrick Slattery, Ph.D. & Lionel Corbett, M.D., Daimon Verlag, 2000.
“A Tribute to Dianne Skafte” in Pacifica Newletter, Volume X (2000), pp. 4-5.
"Choosing the Contemplative Life," Psychological Perspectives, Fall-Winter, l995.
"The Contemplative Self in Analytical Practice" - Published in Spiritual Hunger in the Age of the Quick Fix from the proceedings
of the 1995 California Spring Conference of Jungian Analysts and Candidates. Carmel, CA, March 4, 1995.
"(Bull) And Other Depotentiated Matters," Spring: A Journal of Archetype and Culture, 56 (1994), pp. 125-131.
"The Communitarian Self as (God) Ultimate Reality: 9.5 Theses," Spring: A Journal of Archetype and Culture, 54 (1993), pp. 71-99.
Soundings. Santa Barbara, CA: Desert Springs Publications, l988.
"The Divine and Human in Jesus Christ," Psychological Perspectives, Fall l976.
"A Jungian Approach to the Emotion-Laden Dream Image," in Emotional Flooding, edited by Paul Olsen, Human Sciences Press, l976.
"Dream Responses to the Jungian Training Process," in Journal of National Jungian Conference Proceedings, l974.
- TELEVISION PROJECTS
(National Television Programs on Psychology and Religion)
St. Luke's United Methodist Church
Houston, Texas
Summer l986
- COURSES TAUGHT
Jungian-Based Psychotherapy I, II, and III
Clinical Practicum I and II
Myth, Literature & Religious Studies III
Introduction to Dream Work
Myth & Dream
Psyche & the Sacred
Mystical Religious Traditions
- PRESENTATIONS
“How Becoming is the divine Self” San Francisco Society of Jungian Analysts, April 4, 2013.
“Holy Darkness” – Depth Psychology: Mythologies of Soul, Santa Barbara, CA, April 18, 1998.
"Our Father - Our fathers" - New Camaldoli Hermitage, Big Sur, CA, March 13, 1993.
Lecture/discussion presentations on psychology and religion - All Saints By the Sea Episcopal Church, Montecito, CA, November 29, December 6 & 13, 1992.
"Archetypes and the Monastic Life" - New Camaldoli Hermitage, Big Sur, CA, August 21, 1992.
"The Way of the Dolphin" - Response to Peter Schellenbaum's "Interpretation Through Therapeutic Resonance", Chiron Conference, Einsiedeln, Switzerland, March 14-18, 1992.
"God/Self Imaginings: 9.5 Theses and the Intersubjective Imaginal Field", Chiron Conference, Einsiedeln, Switzerland, March 14-18, 1992.
"Journey into the Desert" - lecture presentation - St. Marks University Parish, U C - Santa Barbara, CA, March 9, 1993.
"The Contemplative Self in Analytical Practice" - 1995 California Spring Conference of Jungian Analysts and Candidates. Carmel, CA, March 4, 1995.
- LICENSURE, REGISTRATION, AND PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIP
California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists
International Association of Analytical Psychology
- G. Jung Institute of San Francisco
Certified Jungian Analyst, New York Institute for Analytical Psychology
Licensed Marriage, Family and Child Counselor - MFCC. #24322
Registered Research Psychoanalyst R.P. #60
Division of Allied Health Professions
Medical Board of California
Benedictine Camaldolese Oblate of the New Camaldoli Hermitage in Big Sur, California. (March, l993)
ORDAINED DEACON IN EPISCOPAL CHURCH, JUNE 9, 2005
ORDAINED PRIEST IN EPICOPAL CHURCH, JANUARY 14, 2006