Jungian psychoanalyst Leslie Stein, J.D. | Psychoanalysis and Men | Speaking of Jung #143
May 14, 2025 at 08:13PM
Leslie Stein, J.D. is a Jungian psychoanalyst (and a former attorney, law professor and judge) in private practice in Sydney, Australia.
Born and raised on the streets of the Bronx, his path was rather different from other analysts.
He attended the State University of New York where he earned a degree in sociology and psychology, and played basketball, and then went on to law school in Toronto, later becoming a law professor and, for 10 years, served as a judge.
In the mid 1980s, he trained as a Jungian analyst in Australia and attended the C.G. Jung Institute of New York and started a private practice but left it behind to pursue his particular specialty of devising legal mechanisms to improve mental health in urban areas. He completed a master’s degree in law at Osgoode Hall Law School in Toronto and thereafter has been a professor at law schools and urban planning schools in Canada, the US, England, Australia, and India. He also practiced law as a senior trial attorney and was retained as a negotiator on complex commercial transactions in Russia, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, United Arab Emirates, Pakistan, and London.
He has written five books on how to make our decaying cities livable. This has resulted in him being sought out as a consultant to the United Nations and governments around the world on managing urban blight, homelessness, the effects of climate change, and the inclusion of mental health in strategic planning. His work on strategic planning for neighborhoods was given an award by the United States Congress of New Urbanism and he was, among other appointments, invited to be the Visiting Scholar at the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law at Columbia University and Senior Fellow for four years at the Global Center for Environmental Legal Studies in New York. He is now a member of the Department of the History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Sydney.
It was on a trip to India for the UN on the urban planning of Varanasi that his interest in mysticism was awakened and he then returned full time to practice as an analyst, spending long months in India and enrolling at the C.G. Jung Institute in New York to refresh his work. Since then, he has written or edited six books on Jungian thought reflecting that interest, including, Working with Mystical Experiences in Psychoanalysis, The Self in Jungian Psychology, which was awarded the prize of Best Theoretical Book of 2022 by the International Association of Jungian Studies, Becoming Whole: Jung’s Equation for Realizing God, and his first novel The Journey of Adam Kadmon. He is editor and contributor of Eastern Practices & Individuation: Essays by Jungian Analysts, Psychedelics & Individuation: Essays By Jungian Analysts (with Lionel Corbett), as well as Varieties of Nothingness (with the physicist Dean Rickles), all published by Chiron Publications.
His latest book, The Psychoanalysis of Dr. Seele: A Novel (https://amzn.to/4haPvoA), was published by Arcade Publishing in New York, the imprint that first published Samuel Beckett, Kurt Vonnegut, and Mo Yan who won the Nobel Prize. The novel was released in New York this past February.
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