Karen Ann Smyers
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Karen Ann Smyers (born October 31, 1954) is an American academic with a special interest in Japan.[1] She has also developed a second career as a Jungian analyst.[2]
Smyers earned her undergraduate degree at Smith College and she earned her Ph.D. in Anthropology from Princeton University.[2] Her doctoral thesis was entitled "The fox and the jewel: a study of shared and private meanings in Japanese Inari worship."[3] She is known as an expert on Inari Ōkami and Inari-related literature.
Career
Smyers taught in the Religion Department at Wesleyan University.[2]
Jungian analyst
In 2001, Smyers enrolled in the Jung Institute in Zürich, Switzerland. In 2007, she was awarded a diploma from the International School of Analytical Psychology (ISAP). She established a practice as a Jungian analyst in Hadley, Massachusetts.[2]
Smyers became the President of the Western Massachusetts Association of Jungian Psychology.[2]
