Perera, S.B.
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Sylvia Brinton Perera
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Sylvia Brinton Perera is a Jungian analyst who lives, practices, teaches, and writes in New York City and Burlington, VT. Originally trained as an art historian, she turned to psychology after working with disadvantaged children during the sixties. Earning her M.A. in psychology and graduating from the C.G. Jung Institute in New York, she worked in a city hospital and then at a university counseling center before opening her private practice. Her publications include Descent to the Goddess: A Way of Initiation for Women; The Scapegoat Complex: Towards a Mythology of Shadow and Guilt; Dreams, A Portal to the Source (with E. Christopher Whitmont); Celtic Queen Maeve and Addiction: An Archetypal Perspective; The Irish Bull God: Image of the Multiform and Integral Masculine; and many clinical articles. She teaches at the C.G Jung Institute in New York and lectures around the country and in Europe. She also coleads yearly study trips to Ireland. Source - scroll down