Madeleine Spencer is a critical community psychologist, trained for 10 years at Pacifica Graduate Institute in Carpinteria, California. Her work is in the field of depth psychology where her studies have involved analytical, archetypal, imaginal, community, eco-indigenous and liberation psychology. Her current focus in community psychology is on the relationship between race, and place and the ways that our relationships to each other, as well as the built environment, architecture, and city planning, have protracted social impacts on the mental health of communities.