Jane Alexander Stewart is a clinical psychologist in private practice who provides professional supervision, consultations on creative works in progress and workshops on psychological issues. She leads seminar presentations on "Myth in Film; Myth in Your Life," writes analytic essays on film and lectures on mythic themes in film. She views film as if it were a modern storyteller reflecting modern mythic themes active in popular culture.
She presented "The New Feminine Hero in Contemporary Cinema" as part of a film series "Dialogues in Film" at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art examining the heroic journey of the feminine in three major award winning films 
-- Thelma and Louise, The Piano, and The Silence of the Lambs. This theme was developed from her essay on Jonathan Demme's film, entitled "The New Feminine Hero in The Silence of the Lambs" that was originally printed in The San Francisco Library Journal, reprinted in The British Journal of Psychological Types and published in the anthology, Soul of Popular Culture.
Other commentaries included David Lynch's film Lost Highway, Tom Tykwer's Run Lola Run in The San Francisco Jung Library Journal and Ang Lee’s Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon in Psychological Perspectives. Run Lola Run also appeared in the Los Angeles NOW Times.
Dr. Stewart's "Myth in Film, Myth in Your Life" seminars have covered a range of mythic themes in films as diverse as Smooth Talk, Don Juan de Marco, Wings of Desire, Blue Velvet, Witness, and Crumb. Past seminars (including presentations at the Southern California Psychoanalytic Institute and the Jung Institute in Zurich) included "The Emerging Feminine Hero," "The Myth of Time," "The Marriage of Opposites," and "Patriarchy with Heart." She also led a creative writing workshop, "Endings as New Beginnings", with poet/author Deena Metzger giving writers a fresh perspective on film resolutions.
In earlier years, she was affiliated with Montifiore Hospital in New York, The Drew Medical School and Martin Luther King, Jr., Hospital, The Integral Nursing Program at UCLA and The Woman’s Building in Los Angeles.
