Christopher Jerome Carter, PhD, LP, NCPsyA

Dr. Carter is a nationally-certified psychoanalyst (NAAP) who is licensed and hold a private practice in New York State. He is member of the International Association of Jungian Analysts (Zürich, Switzerland). With decades of leadership experience in community health, mental healthcare, and spiritual care, Dr. Carter brings a deeply integrative approach to the field of psychoanalysis. In his private practice, Dr. Carter specializes in working with young adults, adults and couples complaining of emotional dysregulation, personality disorders, and serious and persistent mental illnesses, conflict resolution and bereavement, amongst other treatment topics. Along with a sense of meaning and purposeful living, Dr. Carter seeks to assist individuals align with their sense of vocation and purpose through a greater sense of wholeness (‘individuation’, in Jungian terms). Dr. Carter’s professional path reflects a rare blend of clinical expertise and systems-level leadership. Prior to establishing his private practice in 2021, he held senior leadership roles within major healthcare and social service organizations, including Senior Program Director at Saint Joseph’s Medical Center/St. Vincent’s Hospital Westchester Division and Program Director with Urban Pathways. In these roles, he oversaw large-scale supportive housing and mental health programs, ensured regulatory compliance, supervised multidisciplinary teams, and developed evidence-based initiatives serving chronically homeless individuals, veterans, and people living with serious mental illness. His academic background is equally distinguished. Dr. Carter earned advanced degrees in Psychiatry & Religion from Columbia University/Union Theological Seminary and completed rigorous postdoctoral psychoanalytic training through the Jungian Psychoanalytic Association. A published scholar and award-winning author, his work critically examines analytical psychology, systemic racism, and the ethical responsibilities of mental healthcare. An Honored Listee in Marquis Who’s Who in America (2024-2025), Dr. Carter continues to contribute to the field through clinical practice, writing, teaching, and advocacy, thereby advancing more inclusive and socially conscious approaches to psychoanalysis and mental health care. Carter argues that argues that 'ethnicity' is a more accurate referent to another person, and that active use of ‘race’ as a referent is active participation in the ongoing, preconscious systematization of race theory (racism). He advocates for a national campaign to reeducate the general population on race, an idea he gathers from efforts set forth by the United Nations in response to the calamities of WWII. He acknowledges that while the Human Genome Project nullified any sense of validity for the concept, it will still be used as a historical referent. Ongoing corrective measures/actions will be needed to address offset and deter racism/ethnic bias, which are undeniably real factors in the Western hemisphere and beyond.

• Jungian Psychoanalytic Association (2021)- Analytical training; IAAP certification

• NYS LP-Psychoanalyst (2021)

• America's Best Medicine - 2026

• International Association of Analytical Psychology

-Carter, C. J., Corresponding Reporter/Editor. ‘Andrew Samuels in Conversation with Christopher Jerome Carter’ (10 May 2025). Journal of Analytical Psychology. Anticipated, Feb. 2026.

-Marquis Who’s Who (13 Jan. 2025). ‘Who’s Who of Distinguished Leaders: 2025 Honorees’.             The Wall Street Journal, p. 84.

-Young-Eisendrath, P. & Carter, C. J. (9/03/2025). “Ending Delusions of Superiority: Race and Eugenics, Part II: Opposing Racism in Jungian Psychology and Psychoanalysis: two Jungians working together to end racism and dehumanization.” Substack. https://drpolly.substack.com/p/ending-delusions-of-superiority-race.

-Young-Eisendrath, P. & Carter, C. J. (7/17/2025). “Ending Delusions of Superiority: Racism and Eugenics (Part I)’: two Jungians working together to end racism and dehumanization.” Substack. https://drpolly.substack.com/p/ending-delusions-of-superiority-racism?r=52vfd6&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&triedRedirect=true.

-Carter, C. J. ‘The Current Role of Analytical Psychology in Maintaining Fictitious Boundaries that are Promoted through the Race Lie: A call to dismantle the virtual wall that exists through attitudes of white supremacy’. Journal of Analytical Psychology, November 2024, 69, 5. DOI: 10.1111/1468-5922.13045.

-Carter, C. J. and T. Houck, eds. Jungian Reflections on Systemic Racism: members of an American Psychoanalytic Community on Training, Practice and Inclusivity (Routledge, 2023).

-Carter, C. J. ‘Time for space at the table: an African American – Native American analyst-in-training’s first-hand reflections.  A call for the IAAP to publicly denounce (but not erase) the White supremacist writings of C. G. Jung’. Journal of Analytical Psychology, 2021, 66, I, 70-92.   Awarded the 2021 Gradiva Award –‘Best Student Paper’.

-Chumley, N. & McGuckin, J. A. Mysteries of the Jesus Prayer (2010). Christopher J. Carter, Funder. Magnetic Arts, LLC.

-Carter, C. J. The Womb Complex & Womb Envy in Males (2007). ProQuest. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3314594.  

-Gannett Co. (cir. 1982). Epidemic: America’s War on Drugs. Featured the Community Health Education Council on Children and Adolescents (CHECCA).