Patricia Martin is a cultural analyst, consultant, and the author of three books on cultural trends.
As a consultant, Martin has worked on teams at Discovery Communications, Dannon, Microsoft, Ms. Foundation for Women, Oracle, Unisys, The Art Institute of Chicago, and the New York Philharmonic, to name a few. Her work has been featured in the New York Times, Harvard Business Review, USA Today, and Advertising Age. A blogger since 2002, Martin was a regular contributor to Huffington Post during its start-up years.
In 2017, she harnessed artificial intelligence (AI) to uncover the emotional effects of the internet on self-development. A book on her findings is forthcoming in 2024. She holds a B.A. in English and sociology from Michigan State University, and an M.A. in Irish literature and culture from the University College Dublin, and an M.F.A in non-fiction writing from Bennington College. Her work in Jungian theory and depth psychology began at the C. G. Jung Institute of Chicago, where she is a professional affiliate and host of the Institute’s podcast, Jung in the World.
Martin speaks worldwide about cultural trends shaping the future and the impact of internet technologies on the collective unconscious. Martin is the proud mother of two adult sons. She resides in Michiana near Lake Michigan with her husband and countless deer. Her private practice is in Chicago.

Recent Articles by Patricia Martin

Identity: A New Crisis of Words
For months I’ve been collecting definitions for the word identity. So far, I have 22. Oddly, there’s little consensus among social scientists and psychologists around

Strange To Ourselves: What Conquering Sleeplessness Taught Me
I remember perfectly well the week it happened. I had gone five days straight without sleep. With concern in his voice, my family doctor referred

Beginning The Year in Gladness
As a new year begins, I keep returning to something I’d read by Craig Morgan Teicher. A poet and renaissance man of the digital age, he