Faculty Biographical Information for 2011-2012

Visiting Guest Lecturers

August J. Cwik, PsyD, is a clinical psychologist, hypnotherapist and Jungian analyst in private practice in the Chicago area. He is a member of the Chicago Society of Jungian Analysts and the Inter-Regional Society of Jungian Analysts. He is on the teaching faculty at the Chicago institute as well as the Minnesota and Florida Interregional seminars, and is also an Assistant Editor of the Journal of Analytical Psychology. He was Co-Director of Training of the Analyst Training Program and Co-Director of the Clinical Training Program in Analytical Psychotherapy at the C.G. Jung Institute of Chicago. He has published articles on the structure of analysis, alchemy, supervision, dreams, active imagination and numerous reviews.

Patricia Ortega Henderson is licensed in Philosophy in Mexico and is a psychotherapist practicing in Mexico City. She is a Primary Trainer for the Association of Music and Imagery. She has a Jungian insight into inner work and publishes articles on feminine psychology. Her current interests are in the feminine aspects of the Mexican psyche.

Phyllis LaPlante, MSW, is a Jungian Analyst who seeks to expand consciousness by studying alchemical texts and by writing fiction. Her published works include Main Street Stories (Genoa House 2010) and When the Body Speaks (Routledge 2000). She is a training analyst with the Inter-Regional Society of Jungian Analysts and lives in Fairfax, Virginia.

Rick Overman, PsyD, is a Jungian Analyst in private practice in Boca Raton and Fort Lauderdale, Florida who is a well received speaker both nationally and internationally. He is a senior training analyst and seminar coordinator for the Florida Association of Jungian Analysts and the Inter- Regional Society of Jungian Analysts. He received his Diploma in Analytical Psychology from the Inter-Regional Society of Jungian Analysts, his Doctorate in Clinical Psychology from the Illinois School of Professional Psychology and his M.A. in Religious Studies from Indiana University. His interests include the numinous experience, the dialogue between Jungian and Buddhist psychology, and the psychological study of popular culture.

Constance Romero, LPC, LMFT is a Jungian analyst in private practice in the New Orleans area and a graduate of the Inter-Regional Society of Jungian Analysts. She is on the teaching faculty of the Florida ad New Orleans Jung Seminars. Connie also has a background in theater as an actor and director. She is currently the Artistic Director of the Archetypal Theatre Company, a group whose works explore the interface between Depth Psychology and Drama. Her memoir, The Cane is Crying: Notes on Katrina was published in Psychological Perspectives.

David Sedgwick, PhD, is a licensed clinical psychologist who has been practicing counseling and psychotherapy since 1977. He provides individual treatment for adults and is a certified Jungian Analyst. Dr. Sedgwick is a graduate of Princeton University, the New School for Social Research, and the University of Colorado. He completed his postdoctoral training with the Interregional Society of Jungian Analysts in 1991. Dr. Sedgwick has been in private practice in Charlottesville since 1985, and has also held staff positions at the University of Virginia, University of Colorado, the Boulder Valley Clinic, and Boulder Psychiatric Institute. He was an assistant professor (general faculty) at UVA from 1984-1996 and is the author of numerous books and articles on psychotherapy and psychoanalysis.

Mark Winborn, PhD, is a licensed clinical psychologist, Jungian psychoanalyst, and nationally certified psychoanalyst. He provides individual psychoanalytic psychotherapy and psychoanalysis for adults in Memphis, Tennessee. He is also on the faculty of the Memphis Jungian Seminar and is available for clinical supervision and speaking engagements.

Sylvester Wojtkowski, PhD, is a Jungian analyst in private practice in New York City. He is a founding member of the Jungian Psychoanalytic Association (JPA), where is an instructor, analyst and supervisor. He is a graduate of the C.G. Jung Institute of New York. He received his doctorate in Clinical Psychology from the New School for Social Research. He is a teacher at the C.G. Jung Foundation for Analytical Psychology. He gives workshops throughout the country on the Jungian and Archetypal Psychology, on imagination, mythology, psyche and culture, etc. He presented on several national and International (IAAP) conferences for Analytical Psychology, on topics such as: Islamic Wound of the Western Psyche (Barcelona 2004), Approaching the Unspeakable Regarding 9/11 (Chicago 2005), Deconstructing the Monstrous (San Francisco 2006), Jung’s ‘Art Complex’ (San Francisco, 2008).