Mario L. Starc, MSW, PhD, LCSW: BA, UC Berkeley, 1974; MSW from California State University, Sacramento, 1977; PhD, The Sanville Institute, 2009. He is a licensed clinical Social Worker and a Board Certified Diplomate in Clinical Social Work, an Advanced Candidate at the C.G. Jung Institute of San Francisco, and is on the faculty of The Psychotherapy Institute in Berkeley. Prior to entering full time private practice in 1993, he worked as Clinical Social Worker in an outpatient mental health clinic, as the director of a psychiatric hospital, and as a therapist and director of a Family Service Agency. In addition to his practice in individual and group psychotherapy he has served as a high school consultant for over 24 years, and also worked for 25 years as a consultant to several kidney dialysis clinics. In addition to his interest analytic psychology and psychotherapy he maintains a deep interest in the areas of Refugee Identity, Culture and the Psychology of culture. His dissertation at The Sanville Institute was entitled, A Narrative Study of Exile: Writers’ Reflections. Since 1993 he has been the co-founder and director of the Slovenian Study Group in San Francisco.