Dr. Erel Shalit is a Jungian psychoanalyst in Ra’anana, Israel. He is a training and supervising analyst, and past President of the Israel Society of Analytical Psychology. He has served as liaison person of the International Association of Analytical Psychology (IAAP) with Bulgaria.
He is a past Director of the Community Mental Health Clinic, Shalvata Psychiatric Centre.
Erel Shalit has served as officer in the IDF Medical Corps, and is a member of the Council for Peace and Security.
He is the author of Enemy, Cripple & Beggar: Shadows in the Hero’s Path (2008), The Hero and His Shadow: Psychopolitical Aspects of Myth and Reality in Israel (new revised edition, 2004), and The Complex: Path of Transformation from Archetype to Ego (2002).
Articles of his have appeared in Quadrant, The Jung Journal (previously the San Francisco Jung Institute Library Journal), Spring Journal, Political Psychology, Clinical Supervisor, Round Table Review, Jung Page, Midstream and other professional and cultural journals.Entries of his are forthcoming in The Encyclopedia of Psychology and Religion, Journeys and Encounters: 17th International IAAP Congress, and elsewhere.
Erel Shalit has taught at the Dept. of Psychotherapy, Tel Aviv University Medical School, and lectures at professional institutes, universities, and cultural forums in Israel, Europe and the United States.