Join us as we celebrate the launch of RE-VISIONING THE AMERICAN PSYCHE edited by Ruby Ipek Burnett. Ipek will be joined in conversation by fellow Ruby Mimi Lok!
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This event will include a conversation, short reading, and Q&A. Books will be available for purchase at the event from our friends at Dog Eared Books!
About RE-VISIONING THE AMERICAN PSYCHE
The United States is at a crossroads: Moving away from the stalemate of political polarization and culture wars requires reflection, critical thinking, and imagination. This book of collected essays brings together leaders in Jungian and archetypal psychology to forge this path by offering a comprehensive look at the American psyche.
Re-Visioning the American Psyche examines the myths, images, and archetypal fantasies ingrained in the collective consciousness and unconscious in the United States. The volume tends to manifest symptoms in political institutions, social conflicts, and cultural movements. Using various interpretative processes―from psychoanalytic to literary and to participatory―it reflects on the meaning of democratic participation, the psychological cost of wars and violence, intergenerational trauma due to racism, the emotional dimensions of political polarization, deep-seated oppositional thinking in patriarchal structures, frailty of the American Dream, and more.
With its rich scope, interdisciplinary scholarship, and critical engagement with historical and current affairs, this book will be of great interest to those in Jungian and depth psychology, as well as sociology, politics, cultural studies, and American studies. As a timely contribution with an international appeal, it will engage readers who are invested in better understanding psychology’s capacity to respond to social, cultural, and political realities.
About Ipek Burnett
İpek S. Burnett, PhD, is a Turkish-American author who provides a depth psychological critique of social, cultural, and political issues. Based in San Francisco, she serves on the boards of nonprofit organizations and foundations that specialize in social justice, human rights, and democracy.
Born and raised in Istanbul, Turkey, Burnett came to the United States to get a bachelor’s degree from Brown University in Modern Culture & Media and International Relations. She received her master’s degree in Counseling Psychology from California Institute of Integral Studies. She got a second masters and doctorate degree in Depth Psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute. Though her academic work remains rooted in the field of psychology, Burnett’s writing has always had a cultural and critical edge, expanding on a range of topics—xenophobia to racism, militarism to materialism.
Burnett is the author of A Jungian Inquiry into the American Psyche: The Violence of Innocence and the editor of Re-Visioning the American Psyche: Jungian, Archetypal, and Mythological Reflections. She is a contributing writer at CounterPunch and a published novelist, essayist, and poet in Turkey.
Burnett’s work in the nonprofit world builds on her longstanding commitment to human rights a. At present, she is the Co-chair of Human Rights Watch’s Executive Committee in San Francisco and serves on the board of 826 Valencia, an organization dedicated to supporting under-resourced students with their writing skills.
Her professional affiliations include International Association for Jungian Studies, Psychologists for Social Responsibility, The Jungian Society for Scholarly Studies, and APA Peace Psychology Division.
About Mimi Lok
Mimi Lok is a writer, editor, oral historian, and narrative strategist. She is the author of Last Of Her Name, winner of the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for a debut short story collection, a California Book Award silver medal, and finalist for the Northern California Book Award and a CLMP Firecracker Award. Her novella from the collection, The Woman in the Closet, placed as a finalist for the 2020 ASME National Magazine Award. Her writing can be found in McSweeney’s, the Believer, Electric Literature, Lucky Peach, Hyphen, the South China Morning Post, and elsewhere.
For almost fifteen years she served as the executive director and executive editor of Voice of Witness (VOW), an award-winning human rights & oral history nonprofit she cofounded that amplifies marginalized voices through a book series, multimedia storytelling, and a national education program. Her work with VOW has been recognized with a Smithsonian American Ingenuity Award for Social Progress and a HRE Human Rights Educator award.
Mimi has received support for her work from MacDowell, the National Endowment for the Arts, the California Arts Council, and others.
Born and raised in the UK, Mimi lived and worked in Hong Kong as a visual artist, arts education consultant, reporter, and educator before moving to the US. She is currently working on a novel and a story collection.
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