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Prof Jon Mills

Honorary Professor
Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Prof Jon Mills

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Biography

Jon Mills, PsyD, PhD, ABPP is a philosopher, psychoanalyst, and retired clinical psychologist. He is Honorary Professor, Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies, University of Essex, Colchester, UK; Faculty in the Postgraduate Programs in Psychoanalysis & Psychotherapy, Gordon F. Derner School of Psychology, Adelphi University, NY and the New School for Existential Psychoanalysis, CA; Emeritus Professor of Psychology & Psychoanalysis, Adler Graduate Professional School, Toronto, Canada. Recipient of numerous awards for his scholarship, he is the author and/or editor of 30 books in psychoanalysis, philosophy, psychology, and cultural studies including Psyche, Culture, World: Excursions in Existentialism and Psychoanalytic Philosophy (Routledge, 2022); Debating Relational Psychoanalysis: Jon Mills and his Critics (Routledge, 2020); Inventing God: Psychology of Belief and the Rise of Secular Spirituality (Routledge, 2017); Underworlds: Philosophies of the Unconscious from Psychoanalysis to Metaphysics (Routledge, 2014); Conundrums: A Critique of Contemporary Psychoanalysis (Routledge, 2012); Origins: On the Genesis of Psychic Reality (McGill-Queens University Press, 2010); Treating Attachment Pathology (Rowman & Littlefield, 2005); The Unconscious Abyss: Hegel’s Anticipation of Psychoanalysis (State University of New York Press, 2002); and The Ontology of Prejudice (Rodopi, 1997). In 2015 he was given the Otto Weininger Memorial Award for Lifetime Achievement by the Canadian Psychological Association.

Research and professional activities

Research interests

Comparative Psychoanalysis & Philosophy

The phenomenological-hermeneutic attitude: Husserl, Merleau-Ponty, Ricoeur; Existential foundations and Onto-Phenomenology: Hegel, Heidegger, Sartre; Postmodern influences: Foucault, Derrida, Lacan, Zizek; Unconscious Ontology: Freud, Jung, Lacan; On Soul Making and Archetypal Psychology: Aristotle, Jung, Hillman; Secular Spirituality: On the Numinous.

Key words: Psychoanalysis
Open to supervise

Publications

Journal articles (6)

Mills, J., (2023). The Black Foe: Being Towards Death1. Journal of Analytical Psychology. 68 (2), 427-435

Mills, J., (2023). Jung on Transcendence. Jung Journal. 17 (3), 57-77

Mills, J., (2022). Archetype, Psyche, World. International Journal of Jungian Studies. 15 (1), 32-51

Mills, J., (2020). Why theory is not myth. Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour. 50 (4), 435-438

Mills, J., (2020). Toward a theory of myth. Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour. 50 (4), 410-424

Mills, J., (2020). The Doomsday Argument Reconsidered. Eidos. A Journal for Philosophy of Culture. 4 (3), 113-127

Contact

jm22239@essex.ac.uk

Location:

Colchester Campus