About

As a ‘New Renaissance’ individual, Maureen B. Roberts has worked, studied, created and taught in a broad variety of interweaving fields. Over several decades she has widely published non-fiction papers and artwork in the arenas of Jungian psychology, contemporary mythology, and shamanism. For the past thirty years she has also run a private practice as a depth and shamanic psychotherapist.

Maureen has won two university literary Prizes: The Sir Archibald Strong Memorial Prize for Literature, and The Edith Hubbe and Harriet Cook Prize. She holds a PhD in the field of English Literature and Jungian Psychology, and also studied Astronomy as part of a university Science degree.

Dr Roberts has worked as an editor, recording and performance singer, songwriter and musician, gardener, pastoral care worker, ecological surveyor, spiritual retreat guide, graphic artist and photographer. In 1986 she assisted pre-eminent Australian photographer William Yang in his coverage of the Adelaide Festival of Arts. 

As a university and adult education tutor, Maureen has taught courses on science fiction, creative stencilling, astronomy, literature, crystal healing, technical communication, Jungian psychology, and Medicine Wheel work. In addition to hosting her own radio show and being a regular guest on ABC Radio, Maureen has been a speaker at conferences and seminars run by The Mythopoeic Literature Society of Australia, The Theosophical Society, Voices Victoria [schizophrenia support network], the C. G. Jung Society of South Australia, and the Mental Health ReEducation and Human Rights Network.

Dr Roberts ran Australia’s Schizophrenia Drug-free Crisis Centre from 2002-11. In place of solicitors, she has represented victims of coercive psychiatry at Supreme Court trials, and at Guardianship Board hearings. She has also been flown overseas and interstate by relatives of loved ones in acute psychospiritual crises, who were desperate for soul-centred alternatives to biopsychiatry. In 2002 she convened ‘Soul Down Under’, Australia’s first international conference on residential and drug-free crisis care for psychosis.

Maureen lives in a cottage in a quiet country town near the sea, on South Australia’s beautiful Fleurieu Peninsula, where she enjoys campervan trips, gardening, fire circles and music jams with friends, creating organic healthcare products, and coastal bushwalking.