Katriona Munthe PhD

 

Science and the Wholeness of Life

The Experience of  Consciousness and the  Ancient Initiation Mysteries

Current Position

Psychoanalyst and Clinical Psychologist in palliative care for Grosseto Hospital

Bio

Katriona Munthe, born in London is of Swedish descent (grandaughter of Dr. Axel Munthe who in the 1890s came to work in Naples and create his home, Villa San Michele, in Anacapri). She is a Junghian psychoanalist with a Roman private practice ( La Caverna di Platone in Prati) and works as consultant clinical psychologist in Palliative Care for the hospitals of Tuscany. She was assistant to Frank Ostaseski who founded the Zen Hospice of San Francisco and as part of the Human Potential Movement, visiting professor in residence at Esalen Institute in Big Sur, California working with Stan Groff and Terence Mckenna. She founded and directed the Biodrama Institute of San Francisco a school of psychotherapy to explore and translate into active imagination and modern psychoanalitical experience the archaeological research of ancient mythological initiation journeys. She teaches hermeneutics and the science of symbols. For ten years she worked for Claudio Naranjo’s International SAT Institute on the Enneagram and the study and development of personality. In the United Kingdom, she was professor of Medical Humanities at Exeter University.