He completed his doctoral work with Edgar Polome and S. M. Katre after spending a year as a Fullbright fellow at Madras University studying with Drs. V. Raghavan and T.M.P. Mahadevan. He is on the adjunct faculty at the Pacifica Graduate Institute and was formerly core faculty at the California Institute of Integral Studies. His research interests and record of publications and presentations are in the areas of Indian psychology and psychoanalysis, both Freudian and Jungian, as well as cultural and film studies. Recently he guest edited (with Jungian Analyst Elaine Molchanov) a volume of Spring Journal titled Jung and India.