David H. Rosen (1945 – 2024) was an American psychiatrist, Jungian analyst, and author. He was the first holder of the McMillan Professorship in Analytical Psychology, Professor of Psychiatry & Behavioral Science, and Professor of Humanities in Medicine at Texas A&M University.  He died in May 2024 following a long illness.

His wide-ranging research interests included analytical psychology, psychology of religion, psychology of humor, positive psychology, depression, suicidology, children’s literature, social medicine and psychiatry as well as the psychosocial, psychiatric, and human aspects of medicine. He is best known for his research involving interviews of survivors of jumps off the Golden Gate Bridge and the therapeutic approach of egocide and transformation in treating suicidally depressed individuals, found in his book Transforming Depression: Healing the Soul through Creativity.

David’s undergraduate work was at the University of California in Berkeley in Psychological-Biological Sciences. His medical degree was from the University of Missouri medical school. His psychiatric residency was at the Langley Porter Institute, University of California Medical Center.

He was appointed lecturer, then assistant professor of psychiatry at the University of California Medical Center in San Francisco. After next serving at the University of Rochester in psychiatry and medicine, he was appointed the McMillan Professor of Analytical Psychology, Professor of Psychiatry, and Professor of Humanities in Medicine at Texas A&M University where he remained for 25 years.

He became a certified analyst and member of the Inter-Regional Society of Jungian Analysts and the International Association for Analytical Psychology. At the time of his death, he was a member of the Pacific Northwest Society of Jungian Analysts and affiliated with the Oregon Health Sciences University in Psychiatry.

A recipient of many honors and awards, David was named the Distinguished Life Fellow by the American Psychiatric Association in 2006.

David was a prodigious writer and active correspondent.  He published over a hundred peer-reviewed articles and chapters. He authored and edited over twenty books including one with his daughter. Additionally, he was the editor for twenty volumes of the Fay Book Series in Analytical Psychology (Texas A&M University Press) from 1991 to 2017. 

He lived in Eugene, Oregon with his wife, Lanara, and he is survived by Lanara and his adult children.