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Dr. S.C.W. Mead is a member of the Nederlands Association for Analytical Psychology and a member of the International Association for Analytical Psychology(Jungian Analysts) since 1988. He was a licensed Clinical Psychologist in the State of California and now holds a BIG registration in The Netherlands as a Psychotherapist. He is also registered as a Clinical Psychologist with the Nederlands Institute of Psychology. He is also a member of the ACCESS Psychotherapy network.
Dr. Mead's Biography
He is a graduate from the California School of Professional Psychology. He completed his Ph.D. studies and training in 1979 in clinical psychology and psychotherapy. He did his post-doctoral training in a partial psychiatric facility in San Francisco. After becoming a licensed psychologist in 1982 he stopped his work in the psychiatric facility and enter full time private practice.
Dr Mead was one of the first two consultants in 1982 for the AIDS clinic at the University of California, San Francisco(USCF). He consulted with physicians and ran groups with AIDS patients. Additionally, he was a Research Assistant at the University and was on a research team investigating the Psychosocial Aspects of HIV infection. During that time in San Francisco many, but not all, of his private practice patients were HIV positive. Those years of working with HIV patients in their living and dying were transformative on a very personal and professional level. “How can one not be touched in their own soul without questioning the essence of ones own life.”
Dr. Mead moved to the Netherlands in 1988 and held a position as Associate Professor at the University of Leiden in the Department of Clinical, Health and Personality Psychology for eleven years. After leaving the university he went into full time private practice as a Jungian Analyst. However, he diversifies his practice by teaching and lecturing. He, presently, teaches part time at University Collage, Utrecht. He says,” They keep me on my toes and make me think almost as much as I make them and over the years have loved hearing about what has become of them and their lives. Some, I can now call colleagues.”
Since being in the Netherlands Dr. Mead has with a colleague organized The Friends of Jung Society in Amsterdam and The First International Conference on the Biopsychosocial Aspects of HIV Infection, a conference on Research and Methodology in HIV Infection, been on the paper selection for the International AIDS Conference in Amsterdam and edited several journals editions of Psychology and Health. He is presently undertaking a research project on relationship therapy in which one or both partners have lived in countries in which there has been political suppression.
Presently he sees individuals and couples in psychotherapy, which speak English either as their first or second language, from every continent in the world. He does short –term psychotherapy and long-term psychoanalysis from a Jungian perspective. He sees persons with depression and anxiety, work related problems, terminal illness, grief and bereavement, school problems, relationship issues, early phases of addiction and sexual and physical abuse. He will be available to consult with you and make an appointment when you contact him. He takes both international and Dutch insurance.
Being an Expat himself, one of his areas of specializations is working with other expats to adjust to living in a new country.
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