Brian Mayo | Skin Deep: Manifestations of the Unconscious in Everyday Life | Speaking of Jung #134
January 15, 2025 at 10:33PM
Brian Mayo is a Jungian psychoanalyst and founding member of the training program of the Ontario Association of Jungian Analysts.
He studied English literature at the University of Western Ontario and went on to earn a master’s degree in social work from the University of Toronto. While working as a mental health counsellor, his analyst, Fraser Boa, connected Brian with Fraser’s sister, the legendary and much-beloved Jungian analyst Marion Woodman, to supervise his cases.
He gained extensive experience working in outpatient psychiatry at Canada’s largest mental health hospital, the Centre For Addiction and Mental Health, and in 1991 decided to train as a Jungian analyst. The following year, he was accepted by the C.G. Jung Institute in Zürich where he spent the first three years of his training, and the final two years were spent in Toronto where he was supervised again by Marion Woodman. Brian graduated from the Jung Institute in 1997 with a thesis on the relationship between #tattoos and the psyche.
In 1999, he and a small group of analysts in Ontario – including Daryl Sharp (Ep. 1, 5), Robert and Dorothy Gardner, Douglas Cann and others – decided to establish an internationally accredited training program. Operational since 2000, the Ontario Association of Jungian Analysts is still the only program of its kind in Canada. Brian remains active with the program through teaching, administering exams, and providing analysis and supervision. He has lectured and given seminars in Montreal, Calgary and Toronto on tattoos, graffiti-writing, and comics as manifestations of the unconscious, which are his ongoing interests.
Last month his book, co-authored with fellow Jungian analyst Patricia Brannigan, was published by Inner City Books. Skin Deep: Manifestations of the Unconscious in Everyday Life, explores how the phenomenon of the practice of tattooing demonstrates Jung’s understanding of how the reality of the unconscious psyche manifests in our daily lives. Stories and images from their research participants show how collective archetypal energies manifest through the choices individuals make when selecting their tattoos, largely unaware of the complex psychological dynamics that inform them.
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