What Seba is
Seba is three things held together by a single editorial vision. It is a curated library of the books, papers, and passages that matter most to the depth-psychological tradition — Jung, the post-Jungians, and the classical material the tradition reads from. It is a vetted directory of analysts, practitioners, treatment centers, retreats, and training programs for people looking for depth-oriented care. And it is a set of AI-guided experiences — bibliomancy, dream reading, tarot, I Ching, astrology, research prompts, and a practitioner-matching tool — each a structured way to draw on the library rather than a chatbot wrapped around it.
The common thread is curation. Seba is edited, not aggregated. Every book on the shelf has been read or chosen for a reason; every practitioner in the directory has been vetted individually; every experience is built on prompts that treat the depth tradition as a living body of thought rather than a content pool.
Why it exists
Finding good depth-psychological material online is harder than it should be. The scholarly literature is behind paywalls or scattered across specialist presses. The practitioner directories that dominate search are advertising platforms that sort by who pays most, not by who does the work well. And the recent wave of AI tools flattens depth psychology into self-help — losing the rigor, the lineage, and the scholarly voice that makes the tradition worth engaging in the first place.
Seba is an attempt to hold the line. It treats depth psychology as a scholarly field first and a consumer category second. Everything on the site is built to serve people who want to read deeply, think carefully, or find a therapist trained in the tradition — without the compromises the commercial web asks for.
Editorial philosophy
Seba is the author of the site. Cody Peterson is its editor. Sebastian — the AI voice that speaks across the experiences and the library — is its drafter, trained on the corpus and tuned against the editorial voice. This is the same pattern a scholarly press uses: an institution publishes, an editor is responsible, and named writers contribute under editorial direction.
Nothing on Seba is framed as personal opinion or clinical advice. The register is scholarly throughout. Where the material touches clinical territory — the practitioner directory, the guide to finding a therapist — it defers to the research literature and points toward care rather than replacing it.
About the editor
Cody Peterson edits Seba. He writes on Jungian psychology, classical sources, and the body-based lineages that emerged from the mid-century integrations of depth psychology with clinical practice. Selected publications:
- Shadow of a Figure of LightChiron Publications · 2024
A book-length meditation on the archetypal dynamics beneath charismatic leadership and its shadow.
- Taming Wild BeastsJung Journal: Culture & Psyche · 2025
- Iron Thūmos & the Empty VesselJung Journal: Culture & Psyche · Forthcoming, August 2026
Reach out
Correspondence is welcome — from analysts and practitioners listed (or who would like to be), from readers, from institutions interested in collaboration, and from anyone with a correction or a suggestion for the library.
Write to cody@seba.health.