Eleanor L. Hall

Nor Hall (born Eleanor L. Hall; 1947) is a post-Jungian psychotherapist and author. Her work focuses on archetypal studies, particularly gender issues and cultural mythology.

Biography She has practiced archetypal psychology since 1972 while maintaining a career as a mythopoetic writer, independent lecturer, workshop leader, consultant, and theatre artist. Her work in recent years as a research dramaturg for Archipelago and content developer for new plays evolved out of participation in Pantheatre's Myth & Theatre Festivals in France. Hall is a volunteer case consultant for the Center for Victims of Torture in Minneapolis, a Pacifica Graduate Institute adjunct faculty and thesis advisor, an advisor for the Ashlar Institute on trauma issues, an advisor for Spring: A Journal of Archetype and Culture, an advisor for Pantheatre, a member of the Walker Art Center Producers’ Council and friend of Rain Taxi Review of books. In 2011 she was a featured guest at These Women!, a conference in Santa Barbara at the Institute for Cultural Change that was named after her book titled Those Women (1988, republished as Dreaming in Red in 2005). In 2015, Hall was a Coffee House Press Artist in the Stacks at OPUS Archives at Pacifica Graduate Institute. She is currently working as a Community Curator for the Counter-Culture video archive with Peter Shea for the Preserve Historic Dinkytown Folk History Initiative in Minneapolis.

Education

1969. BA cum laude, Beloit College in Anthropology and Religious Studies. 1976. PhD in the History of Consciousness at the University of California, Santa Cruz with an emphasis in history of psychoanalysis, classical mythology, and poetry. Teaching assistant to Norman O. Brown. 1978. Post doctoral study at the C. G. Jung Institute, Kusnacht, Switzerland.