Michael Guy Thompson

About Michael Guy Thompson

Michael Guy Thompson, Ph.D. grew up in Havana, Cuba until age 14 when he and his family returned to Tennessee, where he attended the Baylor School for Boys in Chattanooga. He subsequently served in the U. S. Army Security Agency in Vietnam and later in Washington, D. C. In 1973 he moved to London to work with R. D. Laing where he also trained as a psychoanalyst. In 1980 he returned to San Francisco where he founded Free Association, a psychoanalytic salon devoted to integrating phenomenology and psychoanalysis.He subsequently joined the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California in San Francisco where he is currently a Personal and Supervising Analyst and Faculty member. Dr. Thompson has been active in the psychoanalytic community since returning to California in 1980 and has presented his ideas at numerous professional conferences over the past three decades. He is a past President of the International Federation for Psychoanalytic Education (IFPE), and the Northern California Society for Psychoanalytic Psychology (NCSPP).Dr. Thompson also serves on the editorial boards of many professional journals, including Psychoanalytic Psychology, the Journal of Phenomenological Psychology, the Journal of European Psychoanalysis, and The Journal of the Society for Existential Analysis. He is the author of more than 100 journal articles, books, and book reviews on phenomenology, psychoanalysis and schizophrenia. He is a popular speaker and has lectured extensively throughout the United States, Canada, Mexico, Great Britain, Spain, and Australia over the past thirty years. Dr. Thompson is a member of varied psychoanalytic organizations, including the International Psychoanalytic Association and the Philadelphia Association, London. He is the Founder and Director of the NEW SCHOOL FOR EXISTENTIAL PSYCHOANALYSIS, based in San Francisco but training psychoanalysts virtually worldwide. Dr. Thompson practices psychoanalysis in San Francisco and lives in Berkeley, California.

Experience

1. Adjunct Professor

   California Institute Of Integral Studies

   Jan 1984 — Present

   Teach courses in PSYCHOANALYTIC THEORY AND PRACTICE and in EXISTENTIAL THERAPY in the PsyD Program

Education

• The Wright Institute

  Ph.D., Clinical Psychology

  1981 — 1985

• Antioch International University, London

  Master of Arts (MA), Existential Psychology

  1978 — 1980

Skills

• Couples
• Life Transitions
• Family Therapy
• Consultations
• Mindfulness
• Psychotherapy
• Psychodynamic Psychotherapy
• Wellness
• Psychology
• Adults
• Clinical Psychology
• Self-Esteem
• Supervisory Skills
• Adolescents
• Mental Health
• Therapists
• Mental Health Counseling
• Crisis Intervention
• Parenting Issues
• Teaching
• Group Therapy
• Psychoanalysis
• Working with Adolescents
• Counseling Psychology