Demaris Wehr PhD

Author 

Peacebuilder

Speaker and Workshop Leader

Jungian Psychotherapist and Spiritual Counselor

About Demaris

Demaris has had a lifelong interest in peacebuilding, starting with her Quaker upbringing. She taught Religion and Psychology for many years, including at Swarthmore College, Harvard Divinity School, and the Episcopal Divinity School. Demaris began her practice as a Jungian psychotherapist in 1993. She and her late husband, Jungian analyst David Hart, had a joint practice in Dialogue Therapy (a form of couples therapy), which they did together as the therapist couple. Demaris is on the core faculty of the Sophia Center for Transformative Learning: Integrative Studies in Psyche and Soul. She lives in Hanover, New Hampshire. 

Author

Demaris Wehr, Ph.D., is the author of Jung and Feminism: Liberating Archetypes (Routledge)  and Making It Through:  Bosnian Survivors Share Stories of Trauma, Transcendence, and Truth.

Speaker and Workshop Leader

Demaris presents workshops and lectures nationally and internationally.  

  • Spiritual Survival Skills: Lessons from War Survivors
  • Forgiveness: Even in the Teeth of Genocide?
  • The Making and Unmaking of a Perpetrator
  • Making It Through
  • The Psychology of Forgiveness
  • Seeing Red in Bosnia: The Birth of the Feminine in the Midst of Genocide
  • Finding Your Centerpost and Making It Home
  • The Emerging Feminine in Turbulent Times
  • Staying Sane in a Crazy World: Learning from Bosnian War Survivors

Demaris will resume making presentations sometime in 2021