Harry Polkinhorn, Ph.D.

Harry Polkinhorn, Ph.D., maintains a private practice in psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy in University City. He is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with over 15 years’ experience treating individuals, couples, and children. Dr. Polkinhorn’s extensive background in the humanities provides him with a unique approach to the process of therapy. After living for years in Europe and a subsequent lengthy, dream-based treatment with a Jungian analyst, he was trained in adult psychoanalysis at the San Diego Psychoanalytic Center, where he is currently SDPC Librarian and Ralph R. Greenson Archivist. Dr. Polkinhorn is also Professor Emeritus of English and Comparative Literature at San Diego State University, where he was Director of SDSU Press. He is a permanent visiting professor at the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo, Brazil, and adjunct in Depth Psychology at the Pacifica Graduate Institute. He has published over 50 books of poetry, fiction, translation, and edited collections. His work has been translated into Russian, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, and other languages. Please see his website at: http://hap.workfolio.com/.