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Robin Robertson has spent a life-time bridging the worlds of psychology,
science, business and the arts. He's a clinical psychologist, university
professor and writer who has published seventeen books and more than two
hundred articles in either psychology or his hobby field of magic. Before
becoming a psychologist, he was a vice-president of software development
for a large insurance company, and for the last twenty years, he's been
a consultant to a multi-employer pension plan. He has separate
undergraduate degrees in mathematics and English literature, as well as
an M.A. in counseling psychology, and a Ph.D. in clinical psychology.
Robin's books, often on Jungian psychology or the relationship
between psychology and science, have gone through multiple printings,
new editions, and foreign translations. Since 1986, he's been a writer,
editor, columnist and editorial board member of the Jungian journal
Psychological Perspectives (a beautiful journal that speaks not
merely to specialists, but to everyone who loves Jung.)
For years, he was heavily involved with the applications of chaos theory in
psychology as a writer, editor, speaker, and officer of the "Society for
Chaos Theory in Psychology and the Life Sciences." He's also been a consulting editor and contributor for the cybernetics
journal Cybernetics & Human Knowing (a journal that looks at deep
issues about the nature of reality).
He is a life-time amateur magician, and a member of the Order of
Merlin of the International Brotherhood of Magicians, who has published
or co-published six magic books and many original effects.
 Click here: Robin's
bibliography
2012 Aeon
Byte Interview with Robin
Heart of
Wellness Interview with Robin.mp3
Psychology, Math & Science
All Robin's Earlier Books and
Translations
Sample chapter from Beginner's Guide to Jungian
Psychology
Chapter 3 - Dreams
Sample chapter from At the End of Time
Chapter 1 - Visions of the Millennium (illustrations omitted)
Sample chapters from Mining the Soul: From the Inside
Out
Chapter 2 - Dreams
Chapter 4 - Synchronicity
Sample chapters from The Shadow's Gift
Introduction (illustrations omitted)
Chapter
5 - The Dark Side (no illustrations)
Sample chapters from Jungian Archetypes
Chapter 9 - Logic's Tower of Babel
Chapter 12 - Background for Goedel's Proof
Sample chapter from Indra's Net
Introduction
A selection of other works
"Memories" (Psychological Perspectives #53-1)
"Computer Viruses and the Human Mind" (on Dynapsych -
see link to full site on paper)
"Number as Archetype" (on
Dynapsych)
"Evolution of Jung's
Archetypal Reality: Psychology & G.
Spencer-Brown's Laws of Form" (Psychological Perspectives #41)
"One, Two, Three . . .
Continuity: C. S. Peirce & the Nature of the Continuum" (C&HK, 8:1-2)
"Scintillae
of Light: Chaos and Emergence (Psychological Perspectives #50-1)
Important Links
Psychological Perspectives (Jungian journal)
I've been associated with Psychological
Perspectives in several capacities for many years. Many of my
best articles have been published here, including a serialization of
my book Frodo's Quest: Seven Paths of the Hero in Lord of the
Rings (which ran from issues 50-1 through 52-3). Pdf's of the
series can be downloaded at Academia.edu, along with many other of
my articles.
Cybernetics & Human Knowing
(journal)
A journal of second-order cybernetics,
autopoiesis, and semiotics. Many issues feature Louis Kauffman's
column "Virtual Logic," which deals with G. Spencer-Brown's "Laws of
Form," Kurt Godel's Proof, and many other interrelated issues. I'm a
consulting editor and have published several papers here.
Magic Tricks
Magic Books:
Robertson: Handle With Care
(1964)
Robertson: Card Modes (1983)
Duffie/Robertson: Card
Conspiracy, Vol. 1 (2003)
Duffie/Robertson: Card
Conspiracy, Vol. 2 (2003)
Duffie/Robertson: Diamonds
from Coal (2004)
eBook versions of
all 3 vols. available at
PeterDuffie.com or
Lybrary.com
Duffie/Colombini/Robertson:
Killer Koncepts (2004)
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