Mitchell Lynn Walker (born 1951) is an American gay activist and Jungian psychologist known for influential writing on gay-centered depth psychology, including the paper The Double: An Archetypal Configuration and the books Men Loving Men and Visionary Love: A Spirit Book of Gay Mythology and Transmutational Faerie. In 1979 he co-created the Radical Faeries, described as the first gay-centered spiritual movement, together with Harry Hay, John Burnside and Don Kilhefner, seeking to redefine queer identity through spirituality rather than imitation of heterosexual norms. In 1982, after leaving the Radical Faeries, Walker and Kilhefner founded Treeroots, an organization addressing the psychological dimension of gay liberation.
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After graduation he worked on a master's-level in psychology at San Francisco's Lone Mountain College focussing on same-sex love from Jung's "archetypal perspective" using the basis that archetypes are "primal indwelling sources after which behavior is patterned and images are perceived." In 1974 Walker had a realization that same-sex love was archetypal, not "a mere accident or adaption," answering the question if one was born gay or does gayness come from social experience.
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Mitchell Lynn Walker is an American gay activist and Jungian psychologist who has written many influential articles and books on gay-centered psychology.
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(born 1951)
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