Robin van Löben Sels is a Jungian Psychoanalyst who recently moved her clinical practice from the Southwest to Maine. She teaches, supervises, and consults internationally.

She is the author of:

  • Wanting A Country for This Weather: The Collection, (2022)
  • Shamanic Dimensions of Psychotherapy: Healing Through the Symbolic Process, (2020)
  • Dreamwork(ing): A Primer, (2024)
  • A Dream in the World: Poetics of Soul in Two Women, Modern and Medieval, (2003)
  • Wanting A Country for This Weather, Mellon Press (1994), Hardback (2003)

Publication of Gwendolyn's Quest: A Psychological Parable is due mid-July, early August, and will be available on lulu, Amazon, and this website.

Robin van Loben Sels

Books

Gwendolyn’s Quest

Gwendolyn’s Quest: A Psychological Fable

beboldbooks, 2025
Robin van Löben Sels

When I first saw a copy of Gwendolyn's Quest: A Psychological Fable, I was immediately drawn to it's beautiful, wispy cover. Reading the fable, I found myself accompanying Gwendolyn as she left the patriarchy and struck out to find her own feminine way in the world. As Gwendolyn navigates new lands and challenges, she encounters many twists and turns, and yet she doesn't lose her motivation to find her Prince.

– Jane Penrod, Jungian Analyst

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Dreamwork(ing): A Primer

Wanting A Country for This Weather: The Collection

beboldbooks, 2022
Robin van Löben Sels

A collection of poetry from Wanting a Country for This Weather (2003, Mellen Poetry Press) along with earlier and later writings.

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Dreamwork(ing): A Primer

Dreamwork(ing): A Primer

First edition: Trout and Mountain Press, 2010
Second edition: beboldbooks, 2024
Robin van Löben Sels

Essentially this little booklet consists of six brief chapters with comments, quotations, and empty pages for your own dreams, notes and ideas.

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Wanting a Country for this Weather

Shamanic Dimensions of Psychotherapy: Healing Through the Symbolic Process

Rutledge, 2020
Robin van Löben Sels

In Shamanic Dimensions of Psychotherapy: Healing through the Symbolic Process, Robin van Löben Sels uniquely and honestly recounts her personal journey towards a shamanic understanding of psychotherapy.

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A Dream in the World: Poetics of Soul in Two Women, Modern and Medieval

A Dream in the World: Poetics of Soul in Two Women, Modern and Medieval

Brunner-Routledge, 2003
Robin van Löben Sels

This book details a classical Jungian psychotherapeutic process through analysis of a modern woman’s dreams.

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Wanting a Country for this Weather

Wanting a Country for this Weather

Mellon Press, 1994 (Paperback)
Robin van Löben Sels

Wanting a Country for this Weather and Other Poems

Mellon Press, 2003 (Hardcover)
Robin van Löben Sels

Continuing the mystical tradition of Rumi, John Donne, Ann Bradstreet and Emily Dickinson, this widely published poet and Jungian analyst offers a lyrical celebration of the mysterious inner life.

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