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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.
In honor of Tom Elsner’s Opus, Flash of Golden Fire, and the life he lived around this opus, Monika Wikman offers this recording:
Psychological Perspectives
Edition 69.3 of the Psychological Perspectives Journal is dedicated to Tom Elsner, with most of the essays bringing alive the reality of the psyche that came into being in various relationships Tom had with them. It will be a rich lively read full of genuine Eros and the Presence of Tom in unique ways… It will be out in December of 2026. Order it here
