Charles T. Zeltzer, PhD

Charles Zeltzer, Ph.D. is a former Director of Training of the C.G. Jung Institute of Los Angeles, and continues as a member of the faculty. He is also a member of the Interregional Society of Jungian Analysts. He served on the editorial board of Psychological Perspectives and guest-edited special issues on Jung and the East, and fairy tales. Charles lectures both nationally and internationally on the relationship between body, psyche and trauma, and on many aspects of the religious dimension of the psyche. These include Kundalini yoga and alchemy, the Roman Catholic Mass and alchemy, and the role of the alchemical god Mercurius in our everyday lives.  Charles has specialized in leading seminars on Jung’s alchemical writings, including a 13-year, line-by-line discussion of Jung’s magnum opus, Mysterium Coniunctionis. Charles practices analysis in Ventura and Santa Monica, California.