Clifford Waldman, Ph.D.

As a Spiritual Psychoanalyst, I help my clients bridge the gap between their soul seed's Divinely chosen blueprint—and their soul's current degree of manifestation. 

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Ph.D. and M.S. in Developmental Psychology, Clinical Psychology, 1981

Yeshiva's Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology

Certified psychoanalytic psychotherapist, 1982

Greenwich Institute for Psychoanalytic Training

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My doctoral dissertation was a Jungian-based study of the creative process exploring the question: “Is more frequently facing our unconscious, undeveloped side (our Shadow)—correlated with higher levels of creativity and spirituality?”

I sensed a “special attitude” embraced by some that seemed to allow them to more effectively face difficult emotional experiences. This attitude seems to involve a belief in a special or higher power that could help them survive, learn—and even grow stronger from facing difficult emotional challenges. This seemingly brave openness allowed these people to continue to grow, evolve, and fulfill more of their potential.

Denying threatening or uncomfortable emotions—in ourselves and others—and burying them in our unconscious—degrades, poisons, and eventually kills our connection to our soul and what’s sacred in life. This diminishes our creativity.

Since 1981, I've had a full clinical practice in NYC. I've helped individuals, couples, families, and groups grow—not only to be more creative at their art and professional work—but in how they lived their lives. They grew to be more creative and more spiritual. I taught The Artists Search for His Soul: a Psychoanalytic Exploration for 15 years at the New School for Social Research, and also at NYU and the NY Open Center. My interest in the “gift of intuitive insight” had grown into an interest in creative psychic development. This, in turn, evolved into a focus on the development of spiritual empowerment.

Spiritual Psychoanalysis is my life’s mission: To bridge the marital division between religion and science. They needed some marriage counseling. We are moral when God channels through our conscience. We have wisdom when He channels through our intuition—which along with wisdom and prophetic seeing--is part of our Divine Soul. We can experience love and joy when He channels through our hearts.

It is our next step to bring forth and integrate the best wisdom from modern science with that of ancient religions’ spiritual wisdom. Science and religion value, seek, and teach more in common than either would imagine. Each knows we need to heal the wounds and transcend the damage caused by past injuries and deprivations. While unresolved, these emotional places of trauma leave us with rigid protective defenses that don’t let us grow and “unfold our Soul.” One can’t actualize when one lives in fear.

Freud limited his theory to our compromised, corrupted “Earth Soul.” He did not focus on our “Divine Soul” regarding human development and treatment. It was Jung, the one non-Jewish member of his followers, who championed the Hebrew notion of “Divine Soul”—that remains directly connected to God. He did this with his notions of archetypes and the collective unconscious.

Creating “Heaven on Earth” by learning to be as much like God as we can—is the goal of life within religions. Within psychology, it’s self-actualization and creative communication skills.

I aim to be empathically present with you as we work together to help you re-enter the Garden of Eden—by finding, allowing, and creating your Heaven on Earth.