Mark Greene originally hails from New York City but called Brazil his first
overseas home by his mid-teens, followed by France, Italy and now, Hong Kong.
The years in between were spent in New York, California and Texas after having
earned a B.A. in Comparative Literature (French and Spanish) from Hamilton
College, driven a NYC taxi, worked as a location manager for film and in special
effects for TV before settling on the computer industry in the late 80's. Moving
to California to begin a successful computer consultancy in Los Angeles for
small and medium-sized entertainment companies-including Philips Interactive
Media-he went on to pursue graduate work in Mythological Studies and Depth
Psychology, receiving both his M.A. and Ph.D. from Pacifica Graduate Institute,
Santa Barbara, CA.
Dr. Greene uses his unique perspective to view contemporary cultural and
socio-political events as part of the continuous unfolding of underlying
patterns of psyche (archetypes). In Hong Kong, he is a Senior Lecturer in the
Counseling and Psychology Department at
Shue Yan
University. He also dedicates some of his time to Cantonese studies
and French-to-English translation.
Dr. Greene has lectured on topics ranging from Orpheus and ecstatic worship in
Brazil to Chinese characters as portals to the unconscious. He has also
published on psychology, mythology and film at
www.cgjungpage.org and in
the journals Mythosphere and Psychological Perspectives. He is a member of the
American Academy of Religion (AAR) and the International Association of Jungian
Studies (IAJS).
This article, which appeared
in February 2005 in the South China Morning Post (Hong Kong) provides an example of how
mythology can be
applied to education and cross-cultural learning:
Chinese New Year Legends in Story-Telling Fest
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