James Hollis is an American Jungian psychoanalyst, author, and public speaker. He is based in Washington, D.C. Life and career Hollis was born in Springfield, Illinois. He graduated from Manchester College (now Manchester University) in Indiana in 1962 with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree, and went on to obtain a PhD from Drew University in Madison, New Jersey in 1967. For the first 26 years of his career, he taught Humanities at various colleges and universities, and between 1977 and 1982 he also trained as a Jungian psychoanalyst at the C. G. Jung Institute, Zürich in Switzerland. He was Executive Director of the Jung Educational Center in Houston, Texas for many years and Executive Director of the Jung Society of Washington (JSW) until 2019. He also worked as a Senior Training Analyst for the Inter-Regional Society of Jungian Analysts, as a Director of Training of the Philadelphia Jung Institute, and is Vice-President Emeritus of the Philemon Foundation. He runs a private practice as a Jungian psychoanalyst and lives and works in Washington, D.C. with his wife Jill, an artist and retired therapist, with whom he has three living children and several grand-children. Works Hollis has written seventeen books based on personal insights and his work in Jungian analytical psychology: The Middle Passage: From Misery to Meaning in Mid-Life (1993) Under Saturn's Shadow: The Wounding and Healing of Men (1994) Tracking the Gods: The Place of Myth in Modern Life (1995) Swamplands of the Soul: New Life in Dismal Places (1996) The Eden Project: In Search of the Magical Other (1998) The Archetypal Imagination (2000) Creating a Life: Finding Your Individual Path (2000) On This Journey We Call Our Life: Living the Questions (2003) Mythologems: Incarnations of the Invisible World (2004) Finding Meaning in the Second Half of Life (2006) Why Good People Do Bad Things: Understanding Our Darker Selves (2007) What Matters Most: Living a More Considered Life (2009) Through The Dark Wood: Finding Meaning In The Second Half of Life (2009) Hauntings: Dispelling the Ghosts Who Run Our Lives (2013) Living an Examined Life: Wisdom for the Second Half of the Journey (2018) Living Between Worlds: Finding Personal Resilience in Changing Times (2020) The Broken Mirror: Refracted Visions of Ourselves (2022) Interviews Vaughan, Alan G. (21 August 2014). "An Interview with James Hollis". Jung Journal: Culture & Psyche. Taylor & Francis Online. 8 (3): 119–130. doi:10.1080/19342039.2014.930631. Hollis, James