Sniffing Petrol,Reclaiming Story and Valuing Kin: An Interview with Craig San Roque

Community psychologist and Jungian analyst Craig San Roque was instrumental in producing a dramatic re‐enactment of the ancient Greek myth of Dionysus (most familiar to us as it is presented in Euripides' The Bacchae), as a therapeutic paradigm and an intercultural resource for indigenous communities in their fight with alcohol abuse. The Sugarman, a documentary of this event, was produced by David Roberts and Bob Randall. After his twenty‐year sojourn in the UK, first training, and then practising child and family therapy, Craig returned to Australia in 1986, and moved to Alice Springs in 1992, to focus on Indigenous matters and intercultural dynamics. Family therapist and fellow Jungian Jeff Power was interested in finding out what had led Craig to take the direction he did.