Fernando Castrillon earned a Masters in Sociology from the University of
California. He is currently completing a doctorate in Clinical Psychology at
the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS) and is also a Candidate
in Training at the Lacanian School of Psychoanalysis in Berkeley,
California. He is adjunct lead faculty in the Interdisciplinary Studies
Department at CIIS as well as a Pre-doctoral Clinical Psychology Intern at a
San Francisco Department of Public Health Clinic. His clinical, teaching,
and research interests include the production of subjectivity (both human
and more-than-human), ecopsychology, radical psychoanalysis,
post-structuralist social/cultural theory, Schizoanalysis, liberatory
politics, cosmology, entheogens, the impact of hyper-velocity technological
change on human psychology and intersubjectivity, the psychology of
human-machine interaction, the intersection of critical social theory and
psychology, contemporary approaches to the treatment of psychosis, community mental health, xenopsychology, violent political movements, war, terrorism and revolution. His dissertation, entitled "Digitizing the Psyche: Human/Nature in the Age of Intelligent Machines," examines the psychological and intersubjective consequences of the hyper-digitization of contemporary Western culture. He is currently coediting, with Doug Vakoch, an ecopsychology anthology titled "Ecologies of the Psyche: Transdisciplinary Migrations of Critical Ecopsychology".
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