Robert Aziz Ph.D. is a psychoanalytical therapist in private practice, an executive mentor within the North American business sector, and has lectured on the psychology of the unconscious at two Canadian universities. He is a Clinical Member of the Ontario Society of Psychotherapists and a Full Member of the Canadian Psychological Association. For further information on Dr. Aziz’s professional work and publications please visit: robert aziz dot com

In his most recent book Democracy and Self-Organization: The Change of Which Barack Obama Speaks, Dr. Aziz draws on his depth understanding of human psychology and culture to provide us with unprecedented insight into the dynamics of meaning underlying Barack Obama’s politics of change.

Dr. Aziz was one of five subject experts invited by The Uehiro Foundation on Ethics and Education (Tokyo) to contribute a chapter to their commemorative publication Asian and Jungian Views of Ethics (1999).

He is the author of C.G. Jung’s Psychology of Religion and Synchronicity (1990) and The Syndetic Paradigm: The Untrodden Path Beyond Freud and Jung (2007), both academic publications of SUNY Press.

Dr. Aziz was honored to have been invited by Dr. Lance Storm of the University of Adelaide, Australia to contribute the Foreword to Synchronicity: Multiple Perspectives on Meaningful Coincidence (2008), which is a remarkable collection of scholarly, clinical and experimental research papers on this subject.

Blog Entries by Dr. Robert Aziz

Mind the Leadership Gap: Why it should have been called the White House Office of Goodwill Neighborhood Partnerships

6 Comments | Posted April 13, 2009 | 12:30 PM (EST)


On the 16th day following his inauguration as the 44th President of the United States of America, Barack Obama established by way of an executive order the White House Office of Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships. This Office, according to the February 5th White House press release, "will be a resource...

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An Inaugural Invocation For A Man of Goodwill

16 Comments | Posted January 16, 2009 | 12:23 PM (EST)


The role played by gut feeling or subjective value judgment in the assessment of character is not to be underestimated, especially in politics. So when it comes to the decision making process of selecting our leaders, although we will listen to what the pundits have to say, although we will...

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Reclaiming America's Leadership Role: Barack Obama and Democratic Culture

Posted October 31, 2008 | 04:47 PM (EST)


The reason for the sudden political ascendancy of Barack Obama, accompanied as it has been by the awakening of unprecedented social, political and cultural sentiments, not only in America but also in the world as a whole, has been the source of much speculation.

We have seen those who...

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Democracy Unbound: The Freeing of Democratic Process from the Tyranny of False Absolutes and False Certainties

Posted October 20, 2008 | 11:43 AM (EST)


Democracy is not a commodity of fixed value; democracy, rather, is a process and as such something we must work each and every day to secure. To uphold and improve democracy's process is, therefore, to uphold and improve democracy itself. The more functional the process, the more authentic the democracy....

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