Nancy Cater, J.D., Ph.D., grew up in northern near Oxford and has lived in New Orleans since 1974. She is the editor of Spring: A Journal of Archetype and Culture, the oldest Jungian psychology journal in the world, the author of Electra: Tracing a Feminine Myth through the Western Imagination, and the publisher of Spring Journal Books, the book publishing imprint of Spring Journal.
Her work focuses upon bringing depth psychology into a cross-fertilizing dialogue with other disciplines and in understanding issues of contemporary concern from a psychological perspective. Since assuming the editorship of Spring and moving its offices from Connecticut to New Orleans in 2004, she has overseen the acquisition and production of over 50 books about Jungian psychology and its interconnections with the humanities: film studies, literature, cultural studies, and history. This includes the development of two book series published in collaboration with the International School for Analytical Psychology in Zurich (ISAPZURICH), and a third series, the Analytical Psychology & Contemporary Culture Series, edited by Thomas Singer, M.D., a psychiatrist and Jungian analyst in Los Angeles. Spring ‘s most recent publications include Psyche and the City: A Soul ‘s Guide to the Modern Metropolis, edited by Tom Singer, a collection of psychologically-oriented essays about 22 cities from around the world, and At Home in the World: Sounds and Symmetries of Belonging, by John Hill, an Irish analyst who has taught for the last 20 years in Zurich.