Thomas Lavin at the C.G. Jung Center Evanston, Apr. 1, 2016. Photo by Laura London. Please stop using it without permission.
Update: Dr. Lavin passed away on Jun. 3, 2024 with his best friend and partner of 55 years, Dr. Mary Ellen O’Hare Lavin at his side. You can find his full obituary here.
Thomas Patrick Lavin is a Jungian analyst and licensed clinical psychologist in private practice in Wilmette, Illinois.
He is a graduate of Quigley Preparatory Seminary in Chicago and for a time attended Saint Mary of the Lake Archdiocesan Seminary in Mundelein, Illinois. He went on to complete doctorates in both clinical psychology and moral theology (ethics) at the University of Innsbruck in Austria, and trained as a Jungian analyst at the C.G. Jung Institute Zürich where he earned a Diploma in Analytical Psychology.
While overseas, Dr. Lavin served as a captain in the Medical Service Corps of the United States Army and set up numerous drug and alcohol rehabilitation centers throughout Europe. He also served as Professor and Dean of the School of Psychology at the University of Maryland’s Munich campus and trained other psychotherapists in the specialized treatment of mental health and substance abuse disorders to benefit active duty and veterans of the US Army.
Upon returning to the United States in 1977, he served for a time as a psychotherapist to military personnel at Fort Sheridan in Highwood, Illinois. After leaving military service, he entered into private practice as both a clinical psychologist and a Jungian psychoanalyst, co-founded the C.G. Jung Institute of Chicago, and lectured at Jungian symposia throughout the world on the movement from religion to spirituality in a personal and developmental context.
This interview was recorded on Wednesday, April 27, 2016. It runs for a little over 90 minutes and is 91 MB. You can listen to the episode right here in your browser or download it directly to your computer. It’s also available on iTunes, Stitcher, and Google Play.
Update: This episode is also available on our YouTube channel.
MENTIONED DURING THE INTERVIEW
Trump’s Il Duce Routine by Roger Cohen, New York Times, Feb. 29, 2016
Donald Trump Retweets Post With Quote From Mussolini by Maggie Haberman, New York Times, Feb. 28, 2016
The Cure at Troy: A Version of Sophocles’ Philoctetes by Seamus Heaney
The Great Transformation: The Beginning of Our Religious Traditions by Karen Armstrong {Sunday Book Review}
Thriving in the Crosscurrent: Clarity & Hope in a Time of Cultural Sea Change by James Kenney
Collected Works, Vol. 18: The Symbolic Life by C.G. Jung {par. 627}
TIME Magazine - Apr. 25, 2016 Republican National Convention preview
TIME Magazine - Mar. 14, 2016 Donald Trump cover
The Cultural Complex: Contemporary Jungian Perspectives on Psyche & Society Edited by Thomas Singer and Samuel L. Kimbles
Jung: A Biography by Deirdre Bair
Collected Works, Vol. 10: Civilization in Transition by C.G. Jung {Contains “Wotan” and “After the Catastrophe”}
Memories, Dreams, Reflections by C.G. Jung
Collected Works, Vol. 11: Psychology & Religion – West & East by C.G. Jung {Contains “The Terry Lectures”}
Donald Trump As an Opportunistic Infection by Robert Magrisso, M.D.
The Dream: The Vision of the Night by Max Zeller
God’s Grandeur by Gerard Manley Hopkins
I Ching: Book of Changes Richard Wilhelm & Cary F. Baynes, Translators
ADDITIONAL LINKS
A Clear & Present Danger: Narcissism in the Era of Donald Trump Includes the chapter, “The Trump Phenomena,” by Thomas Patrick Lavin; published in July 2016
The Trump Phenomena Dr. Lavin’s presentation at the C.G. Jung Center, Evanston, IL
Mary Ellen O’Hare-Lavin, Ph.D. Clinical psychologist and Dr. Lavin’s wife
Mythology in Relationships & Relationships in Mythology by Thomas P. Lavin, Ph.D., Mary Ellen O’Hare-Lavin, Ph.D., Quadrant Journal, Summer 2013 {Link changed; this is the full text.}
This episode is dedicated to Dr. Mary Ellen O’Hare-Lavin, Jessica Hart, & Kaitlyn Whitebread.