Kevin Lu, PhD, is Professor of Applied Psychoanalysis and Head of Department (Practice) at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, University of London. He is the former Head of the Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies (University of Essex), was Director of the MA Jungian and Post-Jungian Studies between 2009 and 2022, and is now Honorary Professor in PPS. He has served on the Executive Committee of the International Association for Jungian Studies and is a member of the Adjunct Faculty at Pacifica Graduate Institute. His publications include articles and chapters on Jung’s relationship to the discipline of history, Arnold Toynbee’s use of analytical psychology, critical assessments of the theory of cultural complexes, sibling relationships in the Chinese/Vietnamese Diaspora, psychoanalytic perspectives on graphic novels and popular culture, and two award-winning papers on racial hybridity and psycho-social methodology respectively. He is the co-author of C. G. Jung’s Collected Works: The Basics (2024).