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David Rosen

Disciplines:
poetry
jungian psychology
clinical psychology/suicide
higher education/texas a&m

Summary

American physician and Jungian analyst at Texas A&M who wrote The Tao of Jung — connecting Jungian psychology to Taoist philosophy — and who studied survivors of Golden Gate Bridge suicide attempts, using analytical psychology to understand the psychological transformation that near-death experiences can produce.

Core Contribution

Applied Jungian transformation theory to the most extreme psychological crisis — studying those who survived suicide attempts to understand how near-death experience produces genuine psychological rebirth — and developed the Tao-Jung connection showing how Eastern philosophy and Jungian psychology converge.

Notable Works & Achievements

The Tao of Jung

Transforming Depression

Historical Influences

C.G. Jung Taoism Japanese aesthetics

Intellectual Lineage

Texas A&M Jungian training

Contemporaries & Peers

Murray Stein Bernstein

Minds Influenced

Jungian suicidologyJungian tradition

Intellectual Posterity

The Tao of Jung Suicide attempt survival research

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