Douglas Whitcher

A practicing psychotherapist in Winterthur, Switzerland, I teach and supervise at the Jung Institute and the International School of Analytical Psychology in Zürich. I have edited for the Jung Journal published by the University of California Press and translated books by Verena Kast Mario Jacoby. Presently I am working on a book about the use of animal allegories in psychotherapy. At Syracuse University I studied archetypal psychology with David Miller, ethics with Ernest Wallwork, and world religions with Huston Smith. My dissertation dealt with the controversy caused by the critique of Heinz Kohut’s theory of empathy being a veiled theology. I never studied psychology, only religion, but I have a license to practice psychotherapy in Zürich. I grew up in Stanford California, and have been living in Winterthur for over half of my life I speak Swiss German and “high” German.