Professor
Department of Humanities in Medicine

258 School of Rural Public Health
College Station, TX 77843-1266
Phone: 979-845-0755
Fax: 979-845-8634
Email: dhr@psyc.tamu.edu

McMillan Professor of Analytical Psychology
Professor of Psychiatry & Behavioral Science- Texas A&M University

Education

Prior to coming to Texas A&M University in 1986, Dr. Rosen was Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Medicine at the University of Rochester Medical Center in New York. He has a B.A. degree from the University of California (Berkeley) in Psychological-Biological Sciences and an M.D. degree from the University of Missouri (Columbia). Dr. Rosen's psychiatric training was at the Langley Porter Institute (University of California Medical Center, San Francisco), where he remained on the faculty until 1982. Dr. Rosen is also a Jungian psychoanalyst. His training is analytical psychology was with the C.G. Jung Institute of San Francisco, California and the Inter-Regional Society of Jungian Analysts.

Research Interests

Dr. Rosen's research interests include analytical psychology, the psychology of religion, positive psychology, depression, suicidology, social medicine and psychiatry, epidemiology, healing, creativity, and the psychosocial, psychiatric, and human aspects of medicine.

Selected Publications

His publications include over eighty articles and chapters as well as seven books (one of these, Medicine as a Human Experience, co-authored with David Reiser was published by Aspen in 1984). His fourth book, Transforming Depression: A Jungian Approach Using the Creative Arts, was published by Putnam in 1993. It was revised and re-published as Transforming Depression: Healing the Soul Through Creativity by Penguin in 1996 and a third edition was published by Nicolas-Hays in 2002. His fifth book The Tao of Jung: The Way of Integrity was published by Viking in 1996 and subsequently by Penguin in 1997. His sixth book Evolution of the Psyche (edited with Michael Luebbert) was published by Praeger in 1999. Dr Rosen's newest book, The Tao of Elvis, was published by Harcourt in 2002. His awards and honors have included the following: selected for membership in Alpha Omega Alpha, the Honor Medical Society (1970); selected by his class to give the graduation address from medical school, it was titled: "Physician, Heal Thyself" (1970); recipient of the Henry F. Albronda Memorial Award for "exceptional psychotherapeutic skill and unusual concern for the welfare of patients" (1974); selected to attend the National Endowment for the Humanities summer seminar for health professionals on "The Power of the Healer: Its Nature, Sources and Limits" (1981); recipient of the Outstanding Young Physician Award, Medical Alumni Organization, University of Missouri, Columbia (1985); selected to give the Doctor Nathan Sidel Lecture on the Art of Medicine at the Beth Israel Hospital, Harvard Medical School (1987); invited to give lectures at the C.G. Jung Institute in Zurich, Switzerland (1989) and the Oxford University, England (1990); selected to give the Aesculapian Society's "Humanities in Medicine" Lectureship, Louisiana State University School of Medicine, New Orleans (1991), selected to give the keynote address at the 50th Anniversary of the Family Counseling Service at Corpus Christi State University, Corpus Christi, Texas (1992); awarded a Faculty Development Leave for the Spring Semester, 1994 at the University of Zurich and the C.G. Jung Institute in Zurich, Switzerland; selected to give the "Matheny Lecture in the Humanities" at Southeastern Louisiana University, Hammond (1996); selected to give the keynote address on "Transforming Depression: Healing the Soul Through Creativity" at the annual meeting of Social Workers in Louisiana, New Orleans (1997); selected to give a keynote address at the First International Conference on Jungian Psychology and Chinese Culture at South China Normal University, Guangzhou, China (1998); recipient of the Citation of Merit Award ("the highest honor given to distinguished alumni."), Medical Alumni Organization, University of Missouri, Columbia, 1999; and awarded a Faculty Development Leave for the Fall Semester, 1999 at Kyoto Bunkyo University in Japan. In 2000, Dr. Rosen was selected to give the 2001 Annual Fallon-Marshall Lecture in the College of Liberal Arts, Texas A&M University. In 2001 he was also the recipient of the Association of Former Students Distinguished Achievement Award in Teaching for the College of Liberal Arts, Texas A&M University. Dr. Rosen gave one of the plenary addresses at the First International Academic Conference of Analytical Psychology at the University of Essex, Colchester, England (2002). In 2003 he was the First Visiting Professor on The Doctor-Patient Relationship at the University of Miami School of Medicine, Miami, Florida.