M. Guy Thompson, Ph.D. (1947- ), lived in Havana, Cuba until he was 14 when he returned with his family to Tennessee, where he attended the Baylor School in Chattanooga. He subsequently served in the U. S. Army Security Agency in Vietnam and later in Washington, D. C. In 1973 he moved to London to work with R. D. Laing where he also trained as a psychoanalyst. In 1980 he returned to San Francisco where he founded Free Association, a salon for integrating phenomenology and psychoanalysis.
He subsequently joined the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California in San Francisco where he is currently a Personal and Supervising Analyst and Faculty member. Dr. Thompson is very active in the psychoanalytic community and has presented his ideas at numerous professional conferences over the past 20 years. He is a past President of the International Federation for Psychoanalytic Education, and subsequently the Northern California Society for Psychoanalytic Psychology, and continues to be involved with various psychoanalytic organizations. Dr. Thompson serves on the editorial boards of many professional journals, including Psychoanalytic Psychology, The Journal of Phenomenological Psychology, The Journal of European Psychoanalysis, and Existential Analysis: The Journal of the Society for Existential Analysis, and is the author of more than 100 journal articles, books, and book reviews on phenomenology, psychoanalysis, and schizophrenia. He is a popular speaker and has lectured extensively throughout the United States, Canada, Mexico, Great Britain, Spain, and Australia over the ... See more
M. Guy Thompson, Ph.D. (1947- ), lived in Havana, Cuba until he was 14 when he returned with his family to Tennessee, where he attended the Baylor School in Chattanooga. He subsequently served in the U. S. Army Security Agency in Vietnam and later in Washington, D. C. In 1973 he moved to London to work with R. D. Laing where he also trained as a psychoanalyst. In 1980 he returned to San Francisco where he founded Free Association, a salon for integrating phenomenology and psychoanalysis.
He subsequently joined the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California in San Francisco where he is currently a Personal and Supervising Analyst and Faculty member. Dr. Thompson is very active in the psychoanalytic community and has presented his ideas at numerous professional conferences over the past 20 years. He is a past President of the International Federation for Psychoanalytic Education, and subsequently the Northern California Society for Psychoanalytic Psychology, and continues to be involved with various psychoanalytic organizations. Dr. Thompson serves on the editorial boards of many professional journals, including Psychoanalytic Psychology, The Journal of Phenomenological Psychology, The Journal of European Psychoanalysis, and Existential Analysis: The Journal of the Society for Existential Analysis, and is the author of more than 100 journal articles, books, and book reviews on phenomenology, psychoanalysis, and schizophrenia. He is a popular speaker and has lectured extensively throughout the United States, Canada, Mexico, Great Britain, Spain, and Australia over the past thirty years. He is a member of a host of psychoanalytic organizations, including the International Psychoanalytic Association and the Philadelphia Association, London. He practices psychoanalysis in San Francisco and lives in Berkeley, California.
