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CG Jung thought that modern man had lost his way fragmenting into a calloused and threadbare individualism on the one hand and the mass-mindedness of an impersonal state on the other. Between this hardened individualism and desolate political system, the religious instinct has been lost or worse, harnessed to the authoritarianism of populist movements. The results are catastrophic. Political polarization, climate change, the severe wealth divide and other social and economic injustices, the collapse of communities of belonging and the subsequent epidemic of loneliness, these are the multiple crises of our time.

Peter T. Dunlap is a psychologist working in private and political practice. He follows Jung’s vision of psychology focusing on both individual development and social and political transformation. He brings psychotherapists and community leaders together to develop the shared theory and practice of our psychocultural development. He is the author of Awakening our Faith in the Future: The Advent of Psychological Liberalism (Routledge, 2008), multiple book chapters and journal papers working at the interface between clinical practice, group leadership training, and political psychology. He is a licensed SCT group practitioner and currently core faculty in the clinical psychology program at Pacifica Graduate Institute in Carpinteria, California. He can be reached at: petertdunlap@gmail.com.