Steven B. Herrmann

About the Author

Steven Herrmann, PhD. MFT is a Jungian analyst and an analyst member of the C.G. Jung Institute of San Francisco, where he teaches in the Institute’s analytic training program. He has his PhD in clinical psychology and is a Marriage and Family Therapist. Dr. Herrmann has taught and presented nationally and internationally, published several book chapters, numerous articles, and ten books. Vocational dreams have been central to Dr. Herrmann's research for the past 45 years. He has taught Vocational Dreams in the analytic training program at the SF Jung Institute. He believes calling dreams are the most significant variables for individuation, transformation, and the realization of the Self to flourish in analytic treatment. He works with patients who may be struggling with depression or anxiety due to the fact that they have not been living in accordance with the summons of their inner voice to pursue a path towards wholeness. His writings and teaching include subjects such as Jungian literary criticism, American poetry, shamanism, sandplay, active imagination, Spiritual Democracy, yoga, psychology and religion. His recent book publications include "Spiritual Democracy: The Wisdom of Early American Visionaries for the Journey Forward" (2014), "William James and C.G. Jung: Doorways to the Self," (2020), "Vocational Dreams: Calling Archetypes and Nuclear Symbols" (2024), "Meister Eckhart and C.G. Jung: On the Vocation of the Self" (2024), and "Murray Stein: Individuation, Transformation, and the Ways to the Self in Jungian Psychology" (2025). Dr. Herrmann has been in private practice for over thirty years and he sees children, adolescents, adults and couples in his office in Oakland, California.