Name Karen Smyers | ||
Books The Fox and the Jewel: Shared and Private Meanings in Contemporary Japanese Inari Worship Education Princeton University, Smith College | ||
Karen Ann Smyers (October 31, 1954– ) is an American academic with a special interest in Japan. She has also developed a second career as a Jungian analyst.
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Early life
Smyers earned her undergraduate degree at Smith College; and she earned her Ph.D. in Anthropology from Princeton University. Her doctoral thesis was entitled "The fox and the jewel: a study of shared and private meanings in Japanese Inari worship." She is known as an expert on Inari Ōkami and Inari-related literature.
Career
Smyers taught in the Religion Department at Wesleyan University.
Jungian analyst
In 2001, Smyers enrolled in the Jung Institute in Zürich, Switzerland. In 2007, she was awarded a diploma is from the International School for Analytical Psychology (ISAP). She established a practice as a Jungian analyst in Hadley, Massachusetts.
Smyers became of the President of the Western Massachusetts Association of Jungian Psychology.
Selected works
In a statistical overview derived from writings by and about Karen Ann Smyers, OCLC/WorldCat encompasses roughly 3 works in 10+ publications in 1 language and 300+ library holdings.