Megumi Yama

Megumi Yama

Megumi Yama, Ph.D., is presently a Specially-appointed professor of the faculty of Humanities in Kyoto University of Advanced Science, where she teaches depth psychology and clinical psychology. She is also engaged in psychotherapy, supervision, and training mainly based on Jungian thoughts. 

She was educated in clinical psychology at Kyoto University under Prof. Hayao Kawai, where she received her PhD. Her interest is in images and words; what is taking place in the invisible silence, seemingly ‘nothingness’. She is also interested in the process of creative work of both painting and writing. She deals with the theme by exploring clinical materials, formative art, myth, literature, Anime and Japanese culture. She was a visiting researcher at Harvard University in 2015 and Essex University 2008-2009. She has written many articles and books both in English and Japanese, and also translation. She gave many lectures and seminars in US, UK, China, Taiwan and Japan.

Her chapters (in English) include:‘Non-fixed Multiple Perspectives in the Japanese Psyche: Traditional Japanese Art, Dream and Myth’ in Contemporary Influences of C. G. Jung’s Thought (Brill, 2018): ‘The concept of kami in Shintō and holism: Psychotherapy and Japanese literature’ in Holism: Possibilities and Problems (Routledge, 2019): ‘The Red Book: A Journey from West to East via the Realm of the Dead’ in Jung`s Red Book for Our Time: Searching for Soul under Postmodern Conditions. Vol.3. (Chiron Pub., 2019), ‘Listening to a dream-narrative: A language for narrating boundaries’ in Narratives of Individuation’ (Routledge, 2019), How can we survive in this globalized age? Exploring ego consciousness in the Western and the Japanese psyche (Routledge, 2021), ‘The concept of kami in Shintō and holism: Psychotherapy and Japanese literature’ in Holism: Possibilities and Problems. (London & New York. Routledge).