Jill Mellick
Jill Mellick is a Jungian-oriented clinical psychologist, expressive arts therapist, researcher and author; and a founding member of the International Expressive Arts Therapy Association (IEATA). In 2019, the OPUS Archives, at Pacifica Graduate Institute, in California, added The Jill Mellick Collection to their archives, which house the collections of Joseph Campbell, Marija Gimbutas, James Hillman, Marion Woodman, and other prominent scholars in the fields of depth psychology, mythology and the humanities. Biography. Raised in Australia, Mellick graduated from Somerville House in 1965 and completed her first degree in English language and literature at the University of Queensland . She developed graduate studies in transpersonal psychology, as founder of the Creative Expression philosophy program, at the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology (ITP), in California (renamed Sofia University). Mellick's research has included dreams, creative expression for personal growth and development, Carl Jung and The Red Book, and Pueblo Indian art and artists. Mellick and Marion Woodman collaborated across several decades, starting in the 1990s; they led retreats and co-authored publications.