Christopher Jerome Carter, PhD, LP, NCPsyA

Dr. Carter is a nationally certified psychoanalyst (NAAP) licensed in New York State, where he maintains a private practice. He is also a member of the International Association of Jungian Analysts in Zürich, Switzerland. With decades of leadership experience across community health, mental healthcare, and spiritual care, Dr. Carter brings a deeply integrative and human-centered approach to psychoanalysis. His clinical work reflects a commitment to psychological depth, cultural awareness, and the pursuit of meaning and wholeness.

In his private practice, Dr. Carter specializes in working with young adults, adults, and couples experiencing emotional dysregulation, personality disorders, serious and persistent mental illness, conflict, and bereavement. Grounded in Jungian analytical psychology, he supports individuals in developing a stronger sense of identity, vocation, and purposeful living through the process of individuation. His therapeutic approach emphasizes both emotional healing and the alignment of one’s inner life with a broader sense of meaning and personal calling.

Dr. Carter’s professional journey reflects a rare blend of clinical expertise and systems-level leadership. Prior to opening 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 at Urban Pathways. In these positions, he directed large-scale mental health and supportive housing programs, ensured regulatory compliance, supervised multidisciplinary teams, and developed evidence-based initiatives serving chronically homeless individuals, veterans, and people living with serious mental illness.

Academically, Dr. Carter earned advanced degrees in Psychiatry and Religion from Columbia University and Union Theological Seminary, and completed postdoctoral psychoanalytic training through the Jungian Psychoanalytic Association. He is a published scholar and award-winning author whose work critically explores 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 through clinical practice, writing, teaching, and advocacy. He is a vocal proponent of reframing “race” as ethnicity, arguing that doing so challenges the historical foundations of racism and supports more accurate, humane, and socially conscious approaches to mental health and psychoanalysis.

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

• NYS LP-Psychoanalyst (2021)

• America's Best Medicine - 2026

• International Association of Analytical Psychology

Peer-Reviewed Journals

• Carter, C. J. (anticipated February 2026). Andrew Samuels in Conversation with Christopher Jerome Carter (Corresponding Reporter/Editor). Journal of Analytical Psychology. (10 May 2025)
• Carter, C. J. (2024). The current role of analytical psychology in maintaining fictitious boundaries promoted through the race lie: A call to dismantle the virtual wall created through attitudes of white supremacy. Journal of Analytical Psychology, 69(5).
• https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-5922.13045
• Carter, C. J. (2021). 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, 66(1), 70–92.
• 🏆 Awarded the 2021 Gradiva Award – Best Student Paper

Books & Edited Volumes

• Carter, C. J., & Houck, T. (Eds.). (2023). Jungian reflections on systemic racism: Members of an American psychoanalytic community on training, practice, and inclusivity. Routledge.

Online Publications

• Young-Eisendrath, P., & Carter, C. J. (March 9, 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. (July 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

Dissertations & Scholarly Works

• Carter, C. J. (2007). The womb complex & womb envy in males. ProQuest Dissertations.
• 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

Media & Special Contributions

• Marquis Who’s Who. (January 13, 2025). Who’s Who of Distinguished Leaders: 2025 Honorees. The Wall Street Journal, p. 84.
• Chumley, N., & McGuckin, J. A. (2010). Mysteries of the Jesus Prayer. Christopher J. Carter, Funder. Magnetic Arts, LLC.
• Gannett Co. (circa 1982). Epidemic: America’s War on Drugs. Featured the Community Health Education Council on Children and Adolescents (CHECCA).