Barbara Miller

BARBARA MILLER...

Barbara Helen Miller, born in the USA, has had a varied career. She was the second solo-cellist with the Radio Philharmonic Orchestra of the Netherlands for thirteen years. But then she returned to academia and received the Master of Arts in Psychology and Religion, and received the Ph.D. in Anthropology from Leiden University (the Netherlands). Since receiving the Diploma in Analytical Psychology from C.G. Jung Institute Zürich (Küsnacht, Switzerland), she has been in private practice, and holds membership in the professional organizations NAAP and IAAP. She is currently an independent scholar, working in co-operation with the Research Group Circumpolar Cultures, and the author of a variety of publications. 

Publications:

2007, Connecting and Correcting, A Case Study of Sami Healers in Porsanger. Leiden: CNWS Publications.

2009, Establishing the Coastal Sami healer. In J. Jansen, S. Luning, E. de Maaker (Eds.) Traditions on the Move, Essays in Honor of Jarich Oosten. Amsterdam: Rozenberg Publishers.

2010, Traditional Coastal Sami healers in transition. In M. Stein + R. Jones (Eds.) Cultures and Identities in Transition. London: Routledge.

2011, A Sami healer’s diagnosis: a case of embodied countertransference? In R. Jones (Ed.) Body, Mind and Healing after Jung, A Space of Questions. London: Routledge.

2014, The loss and gain of timing: Active imagination in performance. In C. E. Stephenson (Ed.) Jung and Moreno, Essays on the theatre of human nature. London: Routledge.

2015 (editor), Idioms of Sámi Health and Healing. Edmonton: The University of Alberta Press

In Press (editor), Traditions, Trends and Traps: Transfer of Knowledge in Arctic Regions. Edmonton, The University of Alberta Press.