Stanton Marlan, Ph.D., ABPP, LP is an archetypally oriented Jungian analyst and a clinical psychologist who has a long-time passion for alchemical studies. He worked closely with James Hillman, first as his analysand and later as a colleague and friend. Over many years, he exchanged ideas with and helped James to edit his work in Alchemical Psychology. Dr. Marlan holds two Ph.D.’s from Duquesne University, one in Clinical Psychology and one in Philosophy. He is a training and supervising analyst with the Inter-Regional Society of Jungian Analysts, President of the Pittsburgh Society of Jungian Analysts, and past President of the American Board and Academy of Psychoanalysis, as well as an adjunct Professor of Psychology and Clinical Supervisor at the Duquesne University Psychology Clinic. Dr. Marlan has lectured widely at Jungian and Archetypal conferences in the United States and abroad, including the first International Conference on Jungian Analysis and Chinese Culture in Guangzhou, China; the IAAP International Congresses in Cambridge and Barcelona; and the first international conference of the Society for Psychology as the Discipline of Interiority in Berlin. He was a keynote speaker for the Jung Society at the University of Toronto. He has taught at the C. G. Jung Institute, Zurich, as well as other Jungian institutes and universities. He is the author of The Black Sun: The Alchemy and Art of Darkness, and the editor of Salt and the Alchemical Soul and of Archetypal Psychologies: Essays in Honor of James Hillman, and has written many articles on alchemy and Jungian psychology. He is currently working on a new book entitled The Philosophers: Stone: The Alchemy and Art of Illumination, to be published by Texas A&M Press. (2016, 2018)