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About Dr. Robert Aziz

The professional career of Dr. Robert Aziz simultaneously follows three distinct, yet not unrelated paths as a scholar, psychoanalytical psychotherapist and business consultant.

Dr. Aziz has lectured at two Ontario universities on the psychology of the unconscious. At Wilfrid Laurier University, he taught both undergraduate and graduate courses dealing with Freudian and Jungian theories of the psychology of religion. At the University of Western Ontario, he offered a series of lectures, for eight consecutive years, titled Jungian Psychology and the Search for Meaning.

Dr. Aziz is acknowledged internationally for his scholarship in the area of depth psychology. His book C.G. Jung’s Psychology of Religion and Synchronicity (1990), currently in its 10th printing, is a refereed publication of The State University of New York Press. That key arguments from this book have found their way into publications such as The Cambridge Companion to Jung (1997) attests to its merit as a leading-edge theoretical work. “Aziz,” a reviewer writes in the Journal of Exceptional Human Experience, “can be credited with completing Jung’s thinking in regard to both synchronicity and the psychology of religion.”

In 2005 Dr. Aziz brought to completion a ten-year scholarly project. The resultant manuscript underwent scholarly review and was accepted for publication by the Board of The State University of New York Press. The Syndetic Paradigm: The Untrodden Path Beyond Freud and Jung, released in February 2007, has been critically acclaimed as a comprehensive, clinically based work that reaches beyond the theoretical contributions of Freud and Jung. “Lucidly written and richly illustrated with clinical material,” Roderick Main, Deputy Director of the Centre for Psychoanalytical Studies, University of Essex, writes, “Aziz’s book goes beyond highlighting problems in Jungian and Freudian theory to propose a cogent new model that resolves them.”

Dr. Aziz was honored with the distinction of being one of five scholars invited by The Uehiro Foundation on Ethics and Education (Tokyo) to contribute a chapter to their commemorative publication Asian and Jungian Views of Ethics (1999). The Uehiro Foundation has most recently been noted for its joint projects with the Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs, as well as for the Foundation’s sponsorship of a permanent chair in applied ethics at the University of Oxford.

Since 1988 Dr. Aziz has maintained a full-time analytical practice. His clinical work with individuals typically is both in-depth and long-term, utilizing dream analysis as a means of accounting for both conscious and unconscious dynamics. As a specialist in his field, his analytical practice reaches beyond the community within which he resides to include individuals living throughout Canada and the United States. Dr. Aziz is a Clinical Member of the Ontario Society of Psychotherapists. He is also a member of the Canadian Psychological Association and the Canadian Psychological Association Section on Psychoanalysis.

As with his analytical practice, Dr. Aziz’s consultancy work in the business sector is North American in its geographical scope. Bringing his depth understanding of individual personality and interpersonal dynamics to bear on his work as an executive consultant and mentor, Dr. Aziz provides professional direction to executives and executive teams leading an array of businesses throughout Canada and the United States. Underpinning his approach to business consultancy—either as an executive mentor or as a facilitator of executive team dynamics—is Dr. Aziz’s long-held belief in the critical linkage between productivity and the dynamics of meaning. Organizational productivity is dependent on meaning; meaning is dependent on the conscious and functional processing of information and human experience—a formula and indeed organizational challenge which demands as much of those individuals at the center of business units in leadership roles, as it does of the functionality of a business unit in its entirety. With this leadership demand in mind, it is the case, accordingly, that all consultancy work necessarily begins with and proceeds by way of executive coaching and leadership development.