Bio:  Dr. Romanyshyn has authored six books and has published numerous chapters in edited volumes and over fifty journal articles. His most recent book is The Wounded Researcher, and he is currently editing a special edition of Janus Head devoted to the metabletic work of J.H. van den Berg.  His major interest is the dialogue between phenomenology and depth psychology, particularly historical-cultural phenomena, psychotherapy and research. He has lectured widely in the U.S., Europe, South Africa, and most recently Australia and New Zealand where he gave the keynote address to the New Zealand Association of Psychotherapy.

Abstract:  I will describe an approach to research that I have been working on these past fifteen years with my students at Pacifica Graduate Institute. Arising in the place between phenomenology and depth psychology, the approach seeks to make a place for a researcher's unconscious dynamic presence to the research process.  In this respect, it draws upon phenomenology, qualitative research, and hermeneutics, but it argues that an objective psychology has to include the complex subjectivity of the researcher. This requires phenomenology and hermeneutics to come to terms not only with Freud's descriptions of the unconscious, but also with Jung's descriptions, which have had little if any place within the discourse of the academy.

MINUTES of  Sept. 20, 2007 meeting:  Professor Greg Barnhisel, Department of English, Duquesne University, presented on some of his new work, "Two Magazines and Three Editors Fight the Cultural Cold War."  A lively discussion ensued on the relation of Barnhisel's analyses and methods in relation to traditional literary criticism.  The participants also inquired into the details of this interesting relation between cold war propaganda, the three intellectual magazines, and art.  Twenty-seven people attended the presentation.