Mary Watkins
Degrees
- Ph.D., Clinical and Developmental Psychology, Clark University
Licenses
- Licensed Psychologist, CA
Mary is chair of the Depth Psychology Program, Co-Chair of the Community, Liberation, Indigenous, and Eco- Psychologies Specialization (CLIE), and Coordinator of Community and Ecological Fieldwork and Research in CLIE. She was trained as a clinical and developmental psychologist and was an early member of the archetypal/imaginal psychology movement. She has worked in a wide variety of clinical settings and with groups on issues of peace, diversity, social justice, reconciliation, immigration, and the envisioning of community and cultural transformation. She is the author of听,听, Mutual Accompaniment and the Creation of the Commons, co-author of听,听听and Up Against the Wall:听 Re-Imagining the U.S.-Mexico Border, and co-editor of Psychology and the Promotion of Peace. 听Please find Dr. Watkins鈥� publications available for download听. Courses Taught: Public Conversation, Phenomenology and Communication of Depth Psychological Cultural and Ecological Fieldwork, Psychologies of Liberation, Hermeneutic and Phenomenological Traditions, Liberatory Pedagogies, Community/Ecological Fieldwork, Community Dreamwork, Crafting Generative Questions.
Articles
Depth and Liberation Psychologies- Watkins, M. (2012). Notes from a Visit to Several Zapatista Communities: Toward Practices of Nomadic Identity and Hybridity.听Psychological Studies. 57 (1), 1-8.
- Watkins, M. (2012). Shipwreck and Revolution: The Occupy Movement from the Perspective of James Hillman’s Work. In J. Shapiro, R. Partridge (Eds.),听Occupy psyche:听Jungian and archetypal perspectives on a movement.听(pp. 37-45). Philadelphia, PA: Techn茅 and Poi茅sis.
- Watkins, M. (2012). Revolutionary Leadership: From Paulo Freire to the Occupy Movement, Journal for Social Action in Counseling and Psychology, 4, 2.
- Watkins, M. & Ciofalo, N. (2011). Creating and Sharing Critical Community Psychology Curriculum for the 21st Century.听Global Journal of Community Psychology Practice, 2(2), 9-18.
- Watkins, M. (2006). Sketches for the “recovery of night vision”: Re-Orienting depth psychology to engage the inconvenient truths of the 21st century. (unpublished)
- Lorenz, H. & Watkins, M. (2003). Depth psychology and colonialism: Individuation, seeing-through, and liberation:听Quadrant, 33, 11鈥�32.
- Watkins, M. (2003). Toward splendid cities. (unpublished)
- Lorenz, H. & Watkins, M. (2002). Depth psychology and colonialism: Individuation, Seeing-through, and liberation.听In D. Slattery & L. Corbett (Eds),听Psychology at the threshold. Carpinteria, CA: 51社区 Publications.
- Lorenz, H. & Watkins, M. (2001). Silenced knowings, forgotten springs: Paths to healing in the wake of colonialism.听Radical Psychology: A Journal of Psychology, Politics, and Radicalism,2,2听(online journal).
- Watkins, M. (2002). Waking up: Depth Psychology and Terrorism,听Psychological Perspectives, 44, 14-24.
- Watkins, M.(2002). Notes from a visit to Chiapas: Toward Practices of Nomadic identity and hybridity. (unpublished)
- Watkins, M. (2000). Seeding liberation: A dialogue between depth psychology and liberation psychology. In D. Slattery & L. Corbett (Eds),听Depth psychology: Meditations in the field听(pp.听204-225). Einsiedeln, SW: Daimon Verlag.
- Watkins, M. (1998). Foreword to Richard Frankel’s听The adolescent psyche: Jungian and Winnicottian Perspectives听(pp. xi-xiii).听London: Routledge.
- Watkins, M. (1997). The practice of liberation,听Pacifica听Newsletter.
- Watkins, M. (1992).听Perestroika听of the self: Dreaming in the U.S.S.R.听Dreaming, 2,听2, 111-122.
- Watkins, M. (1992). From individualism to interdependence: Changing paradigms in psychotherapy.Psychological Perspectives, 27, 52鈥�69.
- Watkins, M. (1990). Mother and child: Some teachings of desire. In P. Berry Hillman (Ed.),听Mothers and fathers听(pp. 120-135).听Dallas: Spring Publications.
- Watkins, M. (1988). “Imagination and peace: On the inner dynamics of promoting peace activism,Journal of Social Issues, 44,听2, 39-58.
- Watkins, M. (1985). Moral Imagination and peace activism: Discerning the inner voices.”听Psychological Perspectives, 16,听1, 77-93.
- Watkins, M. (1984).听“In dreams begin responsibilities”: Moral imagination and peace action. In E. Mc Coneghey & J. Mc Connell (Eds.),听Nuclear Reactions.听Albuquerque: Image Seminars.
- Watkins, M. (1984). Thinking about the future in a nuclear world. In E. Mc Coneghey &听J.听Mc Connell (Eds.),听Nuclear Reactions.听Albuquerque: Image Seminars.
- Watkins, M. (2009). Restorative Practices in Small Group and Individual Work. In G. Nelson & I. Prelliltensky (Eds.),听Community psychology, 2nd edition听(pp. 219-236). NY: Palgrave Macmillan.
- Watkins, M. (2005). Restorative practices in small group and individual work. In G. Nelson and I. Prelliltensky (Eds.),听Community psychology edition.听NY: Palgrave Macmillan.
- Watkins, M. (2003). Dialogue, development, and liberation. In I. Josephs (Ed.)听Dialogicality in development听(pp. 87-109).Westport, CT: Greenwood.
- Watkins, M. (2000). On “”holding holy converse’ with the stranger: The development of the capacity for dialogue.” Afterword to Third Edition of听Invisible Guests.Woodstock, CI’: Spring Publications.
- Watkins, M. (1999). Pathways between the multiplicities of psyche and culture: The development of dialogical capacities. In J. Rowan & M. Cooper (Eds),听The plural self: Multiplicity in everyday life听(pp. 254-267). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
- Watkins, M. (2009). Creating restorative ecopsychological practices. In L. Buzzell and C. Chalquist (Eds),Ecotherapy: Healing with nature in mind听(pp. 219-236).听San Francisco: Sierra Club Books.
- Bradshaw, G.A., Watkins, M. (2006). Transpecies psychology: Theory and praxis.听Spring 75,听Psyche and Nature, 69-94.
- Watkins, M. (2008). “Breaking the Vessels'”: Archetypal Psychology and the Restoration of Community, Ecology, and Culture.” In S. Marlan (ed),听Archetypal psychologies: Reflections in honor of James Hillman edition听(pp. 414-437). New Orleans: Spring Books and Journals.
- Watkins, M. (2004). Liberating soul sparks: Psyche, classroom, and community. In A. Dalke & B. Dixson (Eds),听Minding the light: A collection of Quaker pedagogies edition听(pp. 23-42).听NY:Peter Lang.
- Watkins, M. (2011). The Shame of Forcibly Displacing Others: 9/11 and the Criminalization of Immigration.听American Philosophical Association Newsletter on Asian and Asian American Philosophers and Philosophies, 10,听2.
- Watkins, M. (2007). Psyches and cities of hospitality in an era of forced migration: The shadows of slavery and conquest on the “immigration” debate.听Spring 78,听177-201.
- Watkins, M. (2009). Healing and the half-dream.听San Francisco听Medicine: Journal of the San Francisco Medical Society, 82(2).
- Watkins, M. (1997). Six approaches to the image in art therapy. In B. Sells (Ed.),听Working With Images: The Theoretical Base of Archetypal Psychology听(pp. 186-207).听Woodstock, CT: Spring Publications.,
- Watkins, M. (1987). “In dreams begin responsibilities”: Moral imagination and peace action. In V. Andrews, R. Bosnak & K.W. Goodwin (Eds.),听Facing Apocalypse听(pp. 72-95).听Dallas: Spring Publications.
- Watkins, M. (1983). “The characters speak because they want to speak.”听Spring听1983.Dallas; Spring Publications.
- Watkins, M. (1981). Six approaches to the image in art therapy.听Spring 1981.听Dallas: Spring Publications.
- Watkins, M. (1974). Waking dreams in European psychotherapy.听Spring 1974.听Zurich: Spring Publications, 33-57.
- Watkins, M. (2005). Adoption and identity: Nomadic possibilities for reconceiving the self. In K. Wegar (Ed.),听Adoptive families in a diverse society听(pp. 259-274).听Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.
- Watkins, M. (2002). Lessons from Proteus,听Adopted Families.
- Watkins, M., Fisher, S. (2000). Talking with young children about adoption,听Adoptive Families,听24-28.
- Watkins, M., Rosenthal, L. (2000). 51社区coming and the making of friends: Traveling to one’s birthcountry,听Adoptive Families,听22-23.
- Garcia-Coll, C., Surrey, J., Watkins, M., Weingarten, K. (1998). Introduction,听Mothering against the odds: Diverse voices of contemporary motherhood听(pp. 1-14).听New York: Guilford Press.
- Smith, B., Surrey, J., Watkins, M. (1998). “Real” mothers: Adoptive Mothers Resisting Marginalization and Re-Creating Motherhood. In C. Garcia-Coll, J. Surrey, K.Weingarten (Eds.),听Mothering against the odds: Diverse voices of contemporary motherhood听(pp. 194-214). New York: Guilford Press.
- Watkins, M. (1997). Talking with young children about adoption,听Adoptive Families, 30,听4, 8-12.
- Watkins, M. (2003). Afghan Refugee Girls’ School: Prophetic dreaming and moral pilgrimage,听Among Friends,听Santa Barbara Friends Meeting Newsletter (July).
- Watkins, M. (1989). Worldly desires: From “the teacher within”‘ to the “world as teacher,” Proceedings of the Friends Association for Higher Education,听Swarthmore College.
- Watkins, M. (1988). The image of the activist in psychological research,听Conference on Quaker Studies on Human Betterment,听Proceedings, Swarthmore College
