Michael Smith

Michael Smith attended the University of Chicago where he studied with the French philosopher Paul Ricoeur and the cultural psychologist Sudhir Kakar. He took two doctorates from the [Chicago Theological Seminary] in a joint program with the [University of Chicago], under Robert L. Moore. He holds a certificate in Analytical Psychology from the CG Jung Institute of Chicago.

He is director and founder of Crows Nest Center for Shamanic Studies USA, France and Belgium, and has taught at Center Trimurti[1] in Paris and Cogolin, France 2009–2023, and has taught at Institut Resources (PNL) in Bruxelles, Belgium. He taught in the third year analyst training program at the C.G. Jung Institute, Bangalor, India, for the Moscow Society of Jungian Analysts and the Russian Academy of Science (2021), for Instituto Mediterraneo Di Psychologia (Sicily) and lectured for the Italian Institute for Analytical Psychology (CIPA), 2022. His special area of focus has been in bridging indigenous medical systems with depth psychology.In 2018 he gave the Keynote Lectures in Clinical and Humanistc Psychology at Saybrook University. He is author of Jung and Shamanism in Dialogue and Psychotherapy and the Sacred, for which he won acclaim (NAAP Gradiva Nominee Award) in 1996.