Craig Chalquist, MS PhD was born in San Diego (poor San Diego!) and has darkened California's doorways all his life. In 1993 he tricked CalLutheran University into awarding him a Master of Science degree in Marriage/Family Therapy, and in spite of boos, thrown tomatoes and the occasional hand grenade finished his doctoral work in Depth Psychology at the Pacifica Graduate Institute. For six years he worked as a clinician, counselor, trainer of therapists, ideological longshoreman, and emotional master-at-arms, some of it at the Cornerstone Counseling Center, where many of his clients who had done jail time realized after a bit of therapy that they rather missed the old Graybar Hotel. He currently foments graduate and undergrad classes in Psychology, Mythology, History and Systems of Psych, Ecopsychology, Jungian Psychology, Psychology of Dreams, Qualitative Research, Brief Therapy, Family Therapy, and Theories of Depth Psychology at Sonoma State University, JFK University, New College of California (feminist psychotherapy track), and the Institute of Imaginal Studies. Two of these institutions have been led to believe he does master's thesis advising as well.Presentations are ongoing. Publications seem to include Terrapsychology: Reengaging the Soul of Place (Spring Journal Books, November 2006); "Summoned by the Voice of Place" in Spring Journal, 2006; Ecotherapy: Psyche and Nature in a Circle of Healing (co-edited with Linda Buzzell-Saltzman, MFT: in press at Sierra Club Books); "Insanity by the Numbers, Knowings from the Ground," a chapter for the anthology Perpetual Adolescence: Jungian Analyses of American Media, Literature, and Popular Culture in press at SUNY; "Looking Back on the Next World War," Dream Network Journal (2005); Imagining a Psychoanalysis of Place (2003); "The Rise of the SUVs," AlterNet (2002); "Turning Psychology's Up Side Down" in the Journal of Critical Psychology (2001); the chapter "Masters of Return" in the anthology Domestic Violence: Opposing Viewpoints (Greenhaven, 2000); and "First Contact: The Sound of the World in Our Symptoms" at the C. G. Jung Page.
Some favorite quotations:
As in a tree or a seed, the margins are where the growth is. Who would want to be anywhere else?
-- Gloria SteinemIn the deeps are the violence and terror of which psychology has warned us. But if you ride these monsters deeper down, if you drop with them farther over the world's rim, you find what our sciences cannot locate or name, the substrate, the ocean or matrix or ether which buoys the rest, which gives goodness its power for good, and evil its power for evil, the unified field: our complex and inexplicable caring for each other, and for our life together here. This is given. It is not learned.
-- Annie DillardIf a person could have a part just once, could lead the waltz of the moment just once--then he has lived, then he becomes the envy of the less fortunate, those who are not born but rush headlong into life, and headlong continue to rush forward, never reaching it...If I have ventured wrongly, well, then life helps me by punishing me. But if I have not ventured at all, who helps me then?
-- Soren KierkegaardBeing able to remain on that dizzying crest: that is integrity and the rest is subterfuge.
-- Albert CamusWhy me?
-- Arthur of Camelot (Malory)Labour to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire,--conscience.
-- George Washington