About Aaron B. Daniels
In addition to being a Associate Teaching Professor in the Psychology Department, Aaron B. Daniels is also a Mindfulness Fellow in Northeastern University’s Center for Spirituality, Dialogue, and Service. He is also the faculty leader of the Northeastern University Psychological Humanities Research Group. His PhD is from Pacifica Graduate Institute in Santa Barbara, California where he focused on Archetypal Psychology with a dissertation on the use of imagination by criminal profilers. His MA is from Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania where he studied existential phenomenology. His BA with honors is from Baldwin-Wallace College in Berea, Ohio. His books are: Imaginal Reality, Volumes 1 & 2 (both in 2011); Jungian Crime Scene Analysis: An Imaginal Investigation (2014); and, most recently, he contributed four chapters and edited Dante and the Other: A Phenomenology of Love (2021). Aaron has been teaching in higher education for over two decades and has received numerous institutional awards for his teaching, advising, research, and collaborations. A psychotherapist in Seattle for 10 years, he worked in community and private practice, achieving LGBT-specialist status. His current research centers on the ‘inscrutably alien’ and spiritual direction, a field in which he completed certification in 2022. Film, science-fiction, and ‘Weird’ literature are frequent additions to his classes and research.