Bruce G. Parent MFA MA IAAP LCAT is a Jungian Analyst/Art Therapist in private practice in New York City. Bruce’s background is in Humanistic and Transpersonal Psychology featuring Roberto Assagioli’s “Psychosynthesis”. His training in psychotherapy led to his work with non-traditional students at UMass Amherst then to join a team created to address the needs of chronically unemployed adults in recovery, post-hospitalization, or in crisis. Bruce was Director of the program before leaving to work as a part of a mental health team at Hampshire College. A few years after an MFA, Bruce got an MA in Art Therapy at NYU that led to years of work with hospitalized children at Mt Sinai and into private practice. Training as a Jungian Analyst shifted his focus to Depth Psychology with adults. Bruce published an article investigating the dynamism in Jung’s theory of Typology in San Francisco Journal of Jungian Studies. Bruce’s has written on Jung’s early drawings of the Mandala and a book review on “The Analyst within”. Bruce recently moderated a discussion on the Art of CG Jung at the 2019 NYU Conference on the topic, and gave a talk on Typology for a Typology Conference at NYU. Talks include Archetypal patterns in film at the Rubin Museum;” Re-thinking the Myth of Oedipus in Analysis” at the North American Jungian Analysts’ Conference; “Alchemy in America”, which places Jung’s study of alchemy in the American alchemical and Hermitic traditions; “Christiana Morgan and the Marsh” focusing on her art the symbol of the Marsh in her work and in American Luminism.; and “The burnt end of a stick: charcoal and elemental expression in psychic life.” at the 92nd St. Y. Current research includes Jung’s use of art and his links with early 20th Century artists/theorists focused on image as psychological processes.
Currently a faculty and Board member of the Jungian Psychoanalytic Association, Bruce was Director of Training; and serves on the Board of Directors of ARAS- the Archive for the Research in Archetypal Symbolism in NYC, and was part of the creative team that recently produced “On taking a knee”, an exploration of the archetypal and symbolic nature of taking a knee cited by Bill Moyers as a memorial to all the Black lives taken unjustly and to all who are taking a knee to honor and protest these losses.