Dyane N. Sherwood, Ph.D.
Chicago, IL
440-776-8991
Dyane Sherwood did her analytic training at the C. G. Jung Institute of San Francisco, where she was certified as an Adult analyst and later as a Child and Adolescent Analyst. She is also a teaching member of the Sandplay Therapists of America/International Society for Sandplay Therapy. In 2010, she moved to Oberlin, where she had a private practice.
Dyane has relocated to Chicago, IL where she serves as president of the C. G. Jung Institute of Chicago and the Interregional Society of Jungian Analysts. She has served on Boards, program committees, and training committees. She lectures and consults in the United States and abroad.
She was the Editor of Jung Journal: Culture and Psyche, an international journal sponsored by the San Francisco Institute, for ten years, and she serves on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Analytical Psychology. Her publications include: Transformation of the Psyche: The Symbolic Alchemy of the Splendor Solis (2003, co-authored with the late Joseph L. Henderson), “The Traditional Plains Indian Vision Quest: Initiation and Individuation” (2007, book chapter), “Training Analysis” (in Murray Stein, Jungian Psychoanalysis, 2010) “Inner Cosmologies: Exhibits of Works by C.G. Jung and Wassily Kandinsky, New York, 2009,” (2010, Jung Journal), “The embodied psyche: movement, sensation, affect” (2010, book chapter), “Weaving/Reweaving” (2015, address to STA National Assembly, reimagining the myth of Athena and Arachne, Sandplay Journal), “Like the Play of Children” (2018, on her own experience of sandplay, in: Into the Heart of Sandplay, co-edited by Dyane N. Sherwood and Betty C. Jackson).
Dyane has started a small press, Analytical Psychology Press, with the additional imprints Sandplay Editions and Dancing Raven Press (shamanism, literary and biographical works). A new edition of Dora Kalff’s classic, Sandplay, translated by analyst Boris Matthews and edited by Dyane will be published in the spring of 2020. Other books forthcoming include studies of William James and Jung, mandala symbolism in the works of James Joyce, color symbolism in alchemy, a textbook of sandplay therapy, and a book of visionary paintings, Journey to Snakewoman.
Dyane enjoys sewing and cooking French and East Indian food, has a large vegetable and flower garden that she starts from seed in her basement, and enjoys hiking with her dog, a black Kai Ken named Yoshi. She is a student of the late Lama Tharchin Rinpoche and now sits with her husband, Jacques Rutzky, who is the Buddhist Affiliate at Oberlin College and a long time Vipassana teacher, in the meditation hall in their home.