Glen Slater, Ph.D. was born and grew up on the Central Coast of New South Wales, Australia. After studying psychology and comparative religion at the University of Sydney, he moved to the United States for doctoral studies in clinical psychology. For the past 25 years he has taught in the areas of depth psychology and mythological studies at Pacifica Graduate Institute, near Santa Barbara, California, most recently chairing Pacifica’s Jungian and Archetypal Psychology Program.
Glen is the author of Jung vs Borg: Finding the Deeply Human in a Posthuman Age (2024), editor of the third volume of James Hillman’s Uniform Edition, Senex and Puer (2005), and co-editor of the essay collection, Varieties of Mythic Experience (2007). He has written a number of articles and book chapters for Jungian publications. His research and writing interests concern Jung and film, the psychology of religion, and depth psychology and technology.
Photograph by Rachel Wolf
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Education
B.A., Psychology/Religious Studies, The University of Sydney.
M.Phil., Religious Studies, The University of Sydney.
Ph.D., Clinical Psychology, Pacifica Graduate Institute.
Academic Work
2023-Present
Associate Chair, Jungian and Archetypal Studies, Pacifica Graduate Institute.
2020-2023
Co-Chair, Jungian and Archetypal Studies, Pacifica Graduate Institute.
2015-2020
Associate Chair, Jungian and Archetypal Studies, Pacifica Graduate Institute.
2010-2011
Adjunct Faculty, Antioch University, Seattle.
2002-2008
Director, Dissertation Office, Pacifica Graduate Institute.
1999-Present
Core Faculty, Pacifica Graduate Institute.
1997-1999
Adjunct Faculty, Pacifica Graduate Institute.
Books
(2024). Jung vs. Borg: Finding the Deeply Human in a Posthuman Age. Arroyo Grande, CA/Thompson, CT: Winter Press/Spring Publications.
(2007). Varieties of Mythic Experience: Essays on Religion, Psyche and Culture. Daimon Verlag. Edited and Introduced with Dennis Patrick Slattery.
(2005). Hillman, James. Senex and Puer. Edited and Introduced by Glen Slater. Woodstock, CT: Spring Publications.
Book Chapters
(2025). In Press. Cybernetics, AI and the Mechanization of Human Thought. In Jonathan Erickson and Jason Batt (Eds.) Soul and the Machine. Palgrave Macmillan.
(2025). In Press. Dissociation and Posthumanism. In Liz Brodersen (Ed.). Jungian and Interdisciplinary Interfaces Between Emotions: Individual and Collective Trauma. Routledge.
(2023). Frontierism and the American Psyche. In Burnett, I. (Ed.). Re-Visioning the American Psyche: Jungian, Archetypal, and Mythological Reflections. New York: Routledge.
(2018a). Hermetic Intoxication and Dataism. In Stroud, J. H. & Sardello, R. (Eds.). Conversing with James Hillman: Mythic Figures. Dallas: Dallas Institute Publications.
(2018b). “The Outsider Protagonist in American Film.” In Hockley, L. & Waddell, T. (Eds.). The Routledge International Handbook of Jungian Film Studies. London: Routledge.
(2018c). Mystic Descent: James Hillman and the Religious Imagination. In Cattoi, T. & Odorisio, D. (Eds.). Mysticism and Depth Psychology. New York: Palgrave.
(2017). The Ascensionism of Fire in Artificial Intelligence. In Stroud, J. H. & Sardello, R. (Eds.). Conversing with James Hillman: Alchemical Psychology. Dallas: Dallas Institute Publications.
(2016a). Jung and the Posthumans. In Bright, B. (Ed.). Depth Psychology and the Digital Age. Depth Insights Publishing.
(2016b). Hillman’s Metapsychology. In Stroud, J. H. & Sardello, R. (Eds.). Conversing with James Hillman: Senex and Puer. Dallas: Dallas Institute Publications.
(2014a). Runaway Train. In Sipiora M. (Ed.). Imagining Psychological Life: Philosophical and Poetic Reflections. Amherst, NY: Trivium Publications.
(2014b). The Archetypal ‘Method’: Reflections on James Hillman’s Approach to Psychological Phenomena. Reprinted in J. Selig and C. Ghorayeb (Eds.). A Tribute to James Hillman: Reflections on a Renegade Psychologist. Carpinteria, CA: Mandorla Books.
(2008). Numb. Archetypal Psycholog-ies: Essays in Honor of James Hillman. New Orleans: Spring Journal Books.
(2007). Aliens and Insects. In Slattery and Slater (Eds.), Varieties of Mythic Experience: Essays on Religion, Psyche and Culture. Einsiedeln, Switzerland: Daimon Verlag.
(2006). Miller and the Butterfly. In C. Downing Ed. Disturbances in the Field. New Orleans, LA: Spring Journal Books.
(2000). Archetypal Fundamentalism in the Twenty-First Century. In D. Slattery and L. Corbett Eds. Psychology at the Threshold. Carpinteria CA: Pacifica Graduate Institute Publications.
Forward:
(2016). Forward to Barcellos, G. The Sibling Archetype: The Psychology of Brothers and Sisters and the Meaning of Horizontality. Thompson, CT: Spring Publications.