Robin Eve Greenberg
About Me
I am an analyst member of the C.G. Jung Institute of San Francisco with a Masters in Dance from Mills College and a Masters in Psychology with a specialization in Somatic Psychology from The California Institute of Integral Studies. From my deep roots in dance and the arts, I bring an understanding of movement and body awareness, creativity, and the imagination to my patients. Jung suggests, “that psyche and matter are two different aspects of the same thing.” Psyche moves the body and the body moves psyche. Listening to the unconscious, and actively engaging with what emerges is a creative, unfolding process.
My Jungian psychoanalytic approach is augmented by many streams of the psychology field, including relational psychoanalysis, developmental psychology, neuroscience, family systems, somatic psychology, dance/movement, the expressive arts, and the cultural body — socio/cultural influences on both the personal and the collective psyche.
Martha Graham
Teaching and writing balance my clinical work and help me to stay current with contemporary, post-Jungian psychoanalytic theory and practice. I am an Associate Editor of the Jung Journal: Culture & Psyche, and I have published on a variety of subjects related to the art of psychotherapy, creativity, embodiment and soul, Jewish mysticism, opening to the imagination, and the idea of home. I teach in the candidate-training program at the C.G. Jung Institute of San Francisco, as well as teach Jungian-oriented psychotherapy through the SF Jung Institute extended education public programs. I am an adjunct associate professor affiliated with John F. Kennedy University and The California Institute of Integral Studies. I present, lecture, and provide consultation to newly licensed, and seasoned, psychotherapists.
Some Areas of Specialization
Relationships, Life Passages, Career/Vocation, Spirituality, Jewish mysticism, Body/Psyche, Creativity, Fertility/Pregnancy, Parenthood, Illness, Divorce, Couples, Parenting, Chronic Pain, Somatic Symptoms, Complex Trauma, Intergenerational Trauma, Cultural Trauma, Anxiety, Depression, Mid-life Challenges, Body/Self Image
Membership & Affiliation
- Analyst Member of the C.G. Jung Institute of San Francisco
- The International Association for Analytical Psychology
- The California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists
- The United States Association for Body Psychotherapy
- The Psychotherapy Institute
- The International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy
Publications
Greenberg, R.E. (2015). On Secrets: Transformative Secrets and the Privacy of Analysis. Jung Journal Culture and Psyche, 9(4): 80-81.
Greenberg, R.E. (2018). The Yellow Brick Road. Jung Journal: Culture & Psyche, 12(4): 14-33.
This article explores the complexity of home, how it relates to the body and the imagination, and is a developmental and archetypal journey. Home is a place where one lives, yet home is also a feeling inside, a yearning, and remembrance. It is something to grow into and grow out of. It is an experience of exile and refuge, of coming apart and reorganization. Home is found in relationship to the body, to inner listening, and to improvisation. Home is imagery, an oneiric dream. Home lives in the natural surround and in the personal, cultural, and collective unconscious. Creativity and the process of active imagination—opening to the unconscious and actively engaging with what comes up—is a journey home, with a capital H, and is an experience of soul-making. (pp 33).
Greenberg, R.E. (2020). Soul Home: The Kabbalah dance and Jungian psychoanalysis. Ed. Pearson, W. and Marlo, H., The Spiritual Psyche in Psychotherapy: Mysticism, Intersubjectivity, and Psychoanalysis. New York: Routeledge (2020), Ch 5: 93-117.
Dance, Jungian psychoanalysis and Jewish mysticism all involve listening to the unknown, and becoming more aware of what vitalizes the soul—a felt connection to something larger than the personality. (pp 114).
Greenberg, R.E. (2022). “The Kabbalah Dance, Jungian Analysis, and Home in Soul.” Jung Journal: Culture & Psyche, 16(4): 70-96.
Underlying depth work is the art of listening, with the humility of opening to what wants to grow. Opening to the imagination is a process of listening to what wants to happen – Wu Wei or non-doing in Taoism, and receptivity in Kabbalah, and the first step in Jung’s active imagination. Listening to soul — an embodied innate spark—is a creative approach to life.
Greenberg, R. E. (2024). “On a Path; Painting, Dancing & the Art of Jungian Psychoanalysis.” Jung Journal: Culture & Psyche, 18(3): 80-96.
Opening to the unconscious, and relating consciously to what emerges, is an art and a dance that involves the capacity to play. When there are unconscious and conscious meetings, a creative process ensues and can constellate what Jung called the “transcendent function”, a process that often catalyzes personal transformation.