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Josephine Evetts-Secker, Professor Emerita, Rev.


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Lydgate
Victoria Square
Whitby
YO21 3RW
United Kingdom


Graduate Analyst

Josephine was born during WW2 in the industrial heart of England. She later moved north to the country on her way to living for 33 years in the wilderness Foothills of the Rocky Mountains in Alberta, Canada.

She graduated from the University of London and the Jung Institute, Zürich. She was in psychoanalytic practice in Canada while teaching at the University of Calgary. She took early retirement from academic life, as Professor Emerita in 1997, to devote her time and energy to her Jungian work. She returned to England, to North Yorkshire on the North Sea coast, near the historic town of Whitby. She is now in private practice, working with the IGAP training programme (London) and the International School of Analytical Psychology (ISAP) in Zürich. She has lectured for Jung societies in UK, Canada, USA and Russia. She has lectured several times at the IAAP Congress. She still serves on the AGAP Executive Committee (ExCo) having served as President and Co-President since joining in 2011. She has published books and book chapters, poetry, articles, and lectures. She has edited collections of fairy tales. She serves as semi-retired priest in the Anglican church.

Books:

  • At Home in The Language of the Soul: Exploring Jungian Discourse and the Psyche's Grammar of Transformation (New Orleans: Spring Journal Books, 2011, then republished by Routledge, 2021)
  • Little Red Riding Hood (Bath: Barefoot Books, 2004) Now published also in Finland and Korea.
The following quartet of books of tales, which I collected, retold, with introduction and psychological commentary, was originally published simultaneously in England and USA. They are now translated into Portuguese, French, German, Czechoslovakian, Greek. & Chinese. (Also published in New York and Melbourne: Abbeville Press. In Paris: Editions Abbeville. In Toronto, Canada: Scholastic Press, 1997.)
  • Tales of Mothers and Sons (Bath: Barefoot Books, 1998)
  • Tales of Fathers and Sons (Bath: Barefoot Books, 1998)
  • Tales of Fathers and Daughters (Bath: Barefoot Books, 1997)
  • Tales of Mothers and Daughters (Bath: Barefoot Books, 1996)

Chapters in Books:

  • Death’s Cartography: “Ours is a flame but borrow’d thence to light us thither”. (Herbert) in Confronting Death. Ed. Luis Morris & Murray Stein. (Chiron Publications, 2024)
  • “This Incandescent Matter: Shudder, Shimmer, Stammer, Solitude” in Jung’s Red Book for our Time: Searching for Soul under Postmodern Conditions. Ed. Stein, Murray & Artz, Thomas. Volume 1.(Asheville: Chiron Publications, 2017)
  • “Love and Be Silent”, Women's Voices (New Orleans: Spring Journal Books, 2014)
  • “Incipit and the Interrogation of Nothingness: Psyche’s Response to Leibnitz’ Question, ‘Why is there not nothing?’” In Proceedings of the Jungian Odyssey, Creation and Destruction: Facing the Ambiguities of Power. Switzerland, June 2009.
  • “Initiating a Psychological Education”, in Jungian Psychoanalysis, ed. Murray Stein (Chicago & de la Salle: Open Court Books, 2009)
  • “‘My place in the crowd ... ‘ The Princess’s People” in When a Princess Dies: Reflections from Jungian Analysts (London: Harvest Books, 1998)
Plus many articles and published lectures

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