Jerry Kroth, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor Emeritus in the graduate counselling psychology program at Santa Clara University in California. His academic assignments have included courses in psychotherapy and personality theory, dreamwork and research methods. Dr Kroth has an abiding therapeutic interest in working with dreams, personal oracles and the applications of dream theory to psychohistory and collective psychology. He is also a member of the International Psychohistorical Association and a frequent contributor to the Huffington Post.

Dr Kroth's twelve previous books were in the areas of counselling, psychology, child sexual abuse, learning disorders, metapsychology, transpersonal psychology, and research methodology. In addition, he has written and presented over 75 papers on anxiety, child development, mass psychology, synchronicity, experimental studies of the dream process, the psychology of propaganda, and collective psychology.

Professor Kroth lives in California with his wife and two daughters. He maintains a website: http://collectivepsych.com