Thomas Elsner, J.D., M.A. was a Zurich trained Jungian Analyst who ran a private practice in Santa Barbara California for 25 years. A former core faculty professor at Pacifica Graduate Institute, he was a training analyst at the C.G. Jung Study Center of Southern California. Before training as a Jungian analyst, Thomas practiced as an attorney.

Thomas Elsner offered seminars and lectures nationally and internationally on his interests in literature and folklore, alchemy, dreams, active imagination, and intersections between physics and depth psychology.

His book A Flash of Golden Fire: Coleridge and the Alchemical Imagination is now available and published by Texas A&M University. Learn more + buy the book

Thomas passed away in January 2025.

THOMAS ELSNER, J.D., M.A.

Certified Jungian Analyst, I.A.A.P.
Certified Psychoanalyst, California Medical Board