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Jennifer Kunst Ph.D.

About

Jennifer Kunst, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst, working with adults and couples in her private practice in Pasadena, CA.

She is a training and supervising analyst at the Psychoanalytic Center of California and an adjunct associate professor at the Fuller Graduate School of Psychology, teaching courses in psychoanalytic theory and technique. In addition to writing about psychoanalytic principles in academic journals, she has a strong desire to share the helpful insights of psychoanalysis with the ordinary person on the street.

Her book, “Wisdom from the Couch: Knowing and Growing Yourself from the Inside, Out," was published in June 2014 from Consortium/Central Recovery Press.

Books by Jennifer Kunst Ph.D.
Recent Posts
Do You Worry?

Worry is an ordinary part of human experience: a protection from danger, a sign that we care, and a struggle to face the inevitable uncertainties of life.

Worry is an ordinary part of human experience: a protection from danger, a sign that we care, and a struggle to face the inevitable uncertainties of life.

Progress and the Human Psyche

Here is a question for you: which force will be in the driver’s seat of your heart, your mind, and your society? Entropy, homeostasis, or progress?

Here is a question for you: which force will be in the driver’s seat of your heart, your mind, and your society? Entropy, homeostasis, or progress?

Falling Down and Getting Up Again

Whatever we may feel about these election results, we must pick ourselves up and carry on. There's work to do.

Whatever we may feel about these election results, we must pick ourselves up and carry on. There's work to do.

The Antidote to Envy

Envy tells us that someone, somewhere has it all—but it just isn’t true. The best we can do is be thankful for what we have and try to do something useful with it.

Envy tells us that someone, somewhere has it all—but it just isn’t true. The best we can do is be thankful for what we have and try to do something useful with it.

The Cost of Cynicism

President Obama has challenged us “to reject cynicism and to reject fear, and to summon what is best in us…” It may be the biggest choice we ever make.

President Obama has challenged us “to reject cynicism and to reject fear, and to summon what is best in us…” It may be the biggest choice we ever make.

The Vulnerability Revolution

If we want to develop security, peace of mind, worthiness and meaning in life, we would do well to join the vulnerability revolution.

If we want to develop security, peace of mind, worthiness and meaning in life, we would do well to join the vulnerability revolution.

Psychoanalysis as Core Training

When a person has a strong core, you’ll see it in how they live their lives: with more patience, tolerance, self-control, courage, creativity, openness, and love.

When a person has a strong core, you’ll see it in how they live their lives: with more patience, tolerance, self-control, courage, creativity, openness, and love.