David H. Rosen

David H. Rosen (February 25, 1945 – May 7, 2024) was an American psychiatrist, Jungian analyst and author, who was the first holder of the McMillan Professorship in Analytical Psychology, Professor of Psychiatry & Behavioral Science, and Professor of Humanities in Medicine at Texas A&M University.

At the time of his death, he lived in Eugene, Oregon, and was a member of the Pacific Northwest Society of Jungian Analysts and an Affiliate Professor of Psychiatry at Oregon Health & Science University. His research interests include analytical psychology, psychology of religion, psychology of humor, positive psychology, depression, suicidology, children's literature, social medicine and psychiatry; epidemiology, healing, ethics, peace, creativity, and the psychosocial, psychiatric, and human aspects of medicine.

Background Rosen graduated from the University of California, Berkeley with an individual major in Psychological-Biological Sciences, and then went to University of Missouri School of Medicine.

He was appointed first lecturer and then assistant professor of psychiatry at the UCSF Medical Center.

Rosen did post-graduate training in Analytical Psychology at the C.G. Jung Institute of San Francisco, California and became certified as a member of the Inter-Regional Society of Jungian Analysts and the International Association for Analytical Psychology. He was later a member of the Pacific Northwest Society of Jungian Analysts.

Rosen died in Eugene, Oregon on May 7, 2024, at the age of 79.

Professional work Rosen is best known for his research involving interviews of survivors of jumps off the Golden Gate Bridge and the therapeutic approach of egocide & transformation in treating suicidally depressed individuals (see "Transforming Depression: Healing the Soul through Creativity").

He edited a book, Less is More: A Collection of Ten-Minute Plays, which contains two plays of his own: "Leap for Life" and "Thanatos Calling." The first concerns survivors of jumps off the Golden Gate Bridge, and the other is about an elderly suicidal woman.

While at UCSF, Rosen received the Henry F. Albronda Memorial Award, the Academic Senate's Award for Distinction in Teaching, the Kaiser Award for Excellence in Teaching, and was selected to attend the National Endowment for the Humanities summer seminar for health professionals. He was also awarded the Outstanding Young Physician Award by the Medical Alumni Organization (University of Missouri), and was elected to Fellowship in the American Psychiatric Association. In 2003, he was designated Distinguished Fellow in the American Psychiatric Association and was elected to Fellowship in the American Academy of Psychoanalysis. He was the recipient of the Psychiatric Excellence Award by the Texas Society of Psychiatric Physicians in 2004. Rosen was named the Distinguished Life Fellow by the American Psychiatric Association in 2006. He and his co-authors received the Article-of-the-Year Award by AcademyHealth for their paper “Two-minute mental health care for elderly patients: Inside primary care visits." Rosen was the recipient of a Glasscock Center for Humanities Research Stipendiary Fellowship at Texas A&M for 2009–2010. He retired from Texas A&M in 2011 and was later affiliated with Oregon Health & Science University.

Publications Rosen published over 100 peer-reviewed articles and chapters and authored and edited over 20 books. Additionally, he was the editor for 20 volumes of the Fay Book Series in Analytical Psychology (Texas A&M University Press) from 1991 to 2017. He also wrote the forewords for these volumes: "Joy, Inspiration, and Hope" by Verena Kast "Integrity in Depth" by John Beebe "The Two Million-Year-Old Self" by Anthony Stevens "The Stillness Shall be the Dancing: Feminine and Masculine in Emerging Balance" by Marion Woodman "Buddhism and the Art of Psychotherapy" by Hayao Kawai "Gender and Desire: Uncursing Pandora" by Polly Young-Eisendrath "Transformation: Emergence of the Self" by Murray Stein "The Archetypal Imagination" by James Hollis "Soul and Culture" by Roberto Gambini "The Black Sun: The Alchemy and Art of Darkness" by Stanton Marlan "The Old Woman's Daughter: Transformative Wisdom for Men and Women" by Claire Douglas "Memories of our Lost Hands: Searching for Feminine Spirituality and Creativity" by Sonoko Toyoda "Ethics and Analysis: Philosophical Perspectives and their Application in Therapy" by Luigi Zoja "The Therapeutic Relationship: Transference, Countertransference, and the Making of Meaning" by Jan Wiener "Synchronicity: Nature and Psyche in an Interconnected Universe" by Joseph Cambray "Connecting with South Africa: Cultural Communication and Understanding" by Astrid Berg "Finding Jung: Frank N. McMillan Jr., A Life in Quest of the Lion" by Frank N. McMillan III "Madness and Creativity" by Ann Belford Ulanov "Brothers and Sisters: Myth and Reality" by Henry Abramovitch "The Soul of Art: Analysis and Creation" by Christian Gaillard

He was the author of over a hundred Haiku