ANZSJA - Key Persons

Dale Dodd was born in Oklahoma on 1 st December 1941 and I was privileged to be with him and his wife and family when he died on 12 th October 2015 at North Shore Hospital, Auckland after an unexpected series of strokes. Educated at the University of Texas, he obtained his Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology in 1971. Although born and raised in the American Bible Belt Dale was a Buddhist from about thirteen years of age. Following three years in New Zealand, first as a Senior Psychologist at Porirua Hospital in Wellington, and then as Principal Psychologist for Wellington Hospital, Dale went to New Mexico in 1978 to train in Santa Fe with the Inter-Regional Society of Jungian Analysts. He returned to New Zealand in 1981 and completed his training with Dr. Dorothea Wraith in the late 1980s. On this return, Dale went into private practice in Wellington. In the middle 1990s Dale moved to Auckland with his wife Mary where they worked in private practice until his recent demise. Dale acted as Co-Director of Training for a number of years. Dale is survived by his wife, Mary Lane Dodd, his son, Mark Dodd, grandchildren, Marissa and Allison, stepchildren Lynn Lacy-Hauck and Paige Lacy, and step-grandchildren, Emma Hauck and Jessica Woulfe. On hearing of his death Dale's colleagues have said of him: "Dale is a treasure to us all"; "A wise, wonderful and compassionate man"; "I experienced Dale's generosity and good mind on numerous occasions during my training and as a colleague and I'm very grateful for that"; "a very loving being"; "warm, encouraging and immensely supportive"; "Dale's gentle humour, kindness and wisdom were formative in the health of our culture and our training"; and "a wise and compassionate colleague, with a great depth of professional experience and with an irrepressible, radiant sense of humour".

Giles Clark was a Jungian analyst, anthropologist, philosopher, historian of ideas, with vast erudition across a range of fields. He also studied art history and architecture. He loved classical and contemporary music, literature, poetry, film, politics, spit-fires, shirts, cricket, nature documentaries … and Hippos, whose visceral muckiness, growls, wheezes, and chuffs he managed to weave into clinical writing on primitive psychoid and borderline states and associated embodied counter-transference experiences. Giles was born in London in 1947 and grew up in rural Essex. He was sent to boarding school at a young age, matriculating to King's College, Cambridge to study anthropology. This had him setting forth with youthful folly to do preparatory field work on the Jains and then Zoroastrians in India. A spinal neurofibroma led to emergency repatriation back to England. Chronic spinal pain dogged him throughout his life and drew him to Nietzsche, psychoanalysis, Jung, Spinoza and Santayana and a lifelong concern with mind-body problems. Unexpected and tragic death from cancer in March 2019 leaves behind an aching hole in our hearts. As well as a good friend, wise analyst and exceptional mentor, he was a devoted family man. He is sorely missed by his family, in-laws, out-laws, extended family, godchildren and circles of family friends. They speak of his kindly eye, his twinkling eye, his perceptive eye that knew when to intervene and went to sit back, watch and wait, his generous eye that knew just what gift would really make the recipient's heart sing. They remind us he was not just an influential analyst and armchair philosopher, but had a great sense of humour. He loved British sketch comedy, such as Peter Cook and Dudley Moore. His children recall with nostalgia the wonderful road trips taken to the tunes of Talking Heads and, aptly, Hot Chocolate's ‘Heaven's in the Back Seat of My Cadillac. He was well known for his humility, kindliness, friendliness and generosity of spirit. A deep thinker, he listened with the ‘third ear' of intuition enabling Baruch Spinoza's ‘knowledge of a third kind' to emerge. Those who sat in his presence, those whose path he crossed - whether patients, supervisees, students, colleagues, friends, children of colleagues, shop-keepers, book-binders, strangers, homeless beggars, café owners - all felt a chord of connection, their unique essence valued. He was an avid collector of rare books, as well as antiques, old clocks, works of art, well-wrought objet d'art. Such mementos transmitted a story: of the one who made it, the who gave it, where it was found and what it symbolised. Although not ‘religious', nor even ‘spiritual,' (he had a healthy distrust of modern usages of ‘spirituality' as implying philosophical mind-body dualism and etherealising), he was a true contemplative in the tradition of Santayana. His love of architecture particularly focused on cathedrals. He was also deeply concerned about political and social injustice, the plight of the oppressed, environmental devastation and climate change. Turning now to Giles' professional self, his analytic practice spanned over 40 years, from 1975 to 1994 in London and from 1995 to March 2019 in Sydney. He took a vital clinical role in analysing, supervising, lecturing, writing, training. His contribution to the development of the Australian and New Zealand Society of Jungian Analysts (ANZSJA) was pivotal, working tirelessly as both a training analyst and Convenor of Training from 1995 to 2004. He gave papers at analytic conferences world-wide, including England, Australia, New Zealand, Switzerland, Italy, Austria, Russia, Canada and Denmark, also for Temenos in Canberra, Jung Societies throughout Australia and New Zealand, the University of Western Sydney and elsewhere. Giles intended to publish his life's work, terminal illness sadly intervening. He was consoled by an undertaking of members of his writing group to have this collection published posthumously. His oeuvre covers such topics as: ‘The theory and clinical treatment of borderline and narcissistic disturbances; psycho-somatic contagion and psychoid states in the analytic field; the role of insight, reason, interpretation and capacity to think analytically in the midst of destructive borderline attacks; the symbolic, pre-symbolic, and developmental failures in symbolising function; the analyst as wounded healer recycling (putting to good use) their own (hopefully) analysed/resolved madness; the jouissance grid. The influence of German Romantic antecedents on Freud and Jung was exemplified in lectures on ‘Depth Psychology, the History of Ideas'. Another passion was ‘The Mind-Body problem in philosophy and dynamic psychology'. His collected works also analyses the relevance of Spinoza, Santayana and the German Romantic philosophers to psychoanalysis and analytical psychology, not merely in historical or theoretical terms but as a vital resource to guide clinical practice.' This list by no means does justice to Giles' clinical innovations, revealed in due course with this proposed publication. Inspired by the spirit of Herder's heteropathic Einfühlung, Giles crossed disciplines, cultures and analytic divides, seeking to bring together members of diverse psychoanalytic, philosophical and cultural lineages. In Sydney his pioneering meetings with members of different psychoanalytic groups paved the way for what later became PACFA and The Australasian Confederation of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapies.