About the authors
Lisa Marchiano, Deborah Stewart and Joseph Lee met while training as Jungian analysts.
A friendship soon took off, and the three supported each other through the famously rigorous process of training as Jungian analysts. Together, they survived exam periods, persevered through losses and defeats, and celebrated and mourned when graduations separated one from the others.
Eager to keep the conversation going, they launched This Jungian Life podcast together in 2018. The aim was to help people who didn’t know much about Carl Jung apply his ideas to the struggles of everyday life (marriage, depression, unrequited love, and feeling low on energy have been among the most popular episodes).
From the beginning, every episode has also included analysis of a listener’s dream, helping the audience understand how to access the healing medicine of their unconscious wisdom.
This Jungian Life now has around forty thousand listeners per episode, and over 13 million downloads. It has a devoted following that includes artists, musicians, journalists, and celebrities. In 2023, New York Magazine wrote that This Jungian Life had “made Carl Jung cool again”.
At the heart of the podcast’s success is the feeling listeners describe of eavesdropping on a lively conversation between three knowledgeable friends.
That friendship is also at the heart of Dream Wise: in the book, Lisa, Deb and Joe bring the warm, accessible wisdom of the podcast to the task of guiding readers in the skills of dream interpretation.
“Like Jung, we have been guided by our dreams. We’ve known them to confront, correct, and comfort us. We have awakened from our dreams feeling awed or heartened. We have regularly seen dreams support, guide, and challenge our patients and untangle agonizing knots in their lives. We know dreams are meaningful”
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About Lisa Marchiano
Lisa Marchiano is an award-winning author, podcaster, and certified Jungian analyst. Her highly-acclaimed books, The Vital Spark and Motherhood, draw upon the healing wisdom of fairy tales to help women connect more deeply with themselves. Lisa’s online women’s group, Spinning Straw, brings women together to explore the medicine of fairy tales and share their journeys.
About Deborah Stewart
Deborah Stewart is a Jungian analyst and Licensed Clinical Social Worker who lives on Cape Cod, Massachusetts, and in Sarasota, Florida. Her career life began with graduate work in special education. A later degree in clinical social work was followed by Gestalt training and psychoanalytic training in Westchester, NY. She then undertook training to become a Jungian analyst and is a member of the Philadelphia Association of Jungian Analysts and the Inter-Regional Society of Jungian Analysts. It’s been a long and rewarding road. She has been married forever and is a proud and busy grandmother.
About Joseph Lee
Joseph R. Lee is a senior certified Jungian analyst and a leading podcaster who introduces Jung’s ideas to a broad national and international audience, a lecturer, and a seasoned clinician. His private practice focuses on the psycho-spiritual healing and strengthening of men.
Early in his professional life, as an Alexander Technique teacher, he focused on rehabilitative movement re-education and bodywork with injured classical musicians in universities across the Southeast for thirty years. These experiences now inform his analytic work, recognizing the body’s wisdom as a catalyst in the transformation of psyche.
He has lived, moved, and had his being in the Western Mystery Tradition and Qabalah since he was sixteen. Reinterpreting ancient traditions through modern idioms, he has lectured nationally, founded multiple psycho-spiritual development groups, and currently mentors emerging teachers in this tradition.
After earning a BFA from the Catholic University of America, he went on to receive a master’s in Clinical Social Work from Norfolk State University. He completed his training in Analytical Psychology and later served as president of the Philadelphia Association of Jungian Analysts.
Prizing solitude, he’ll often be found on the quiet, rural waters of North Carolina’s Inner Banks, near Edenton.
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