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Joseph Henderson points out in his preface to this collection that it is not the first time that the Analytical Psychology Club of San Francisco has published reminiscences of people who have undergone Jungian analysis. The first publication of this kind appeared shortly after Jung's death in 1961, and was confined to memories of Jung himself. The present volume also contains memories of Emma Jung and of Toni Wolff.
There are over forty contributions in the book, varying in length from half a page to twenty pages, and varying too in their nature and quality: some describe a brief meeting or recount an amusing anecdote, others describe the writer's impressions and reflections over a period of time; one is a transcript of Suzanne Percheron's ‘Entretiens avec C. G. Jung’, previously published in Cahiers de Psychologie Jungienne, ‘1975’. Many, though not all, of the contributors were or subsequently became analysts, and the list includes some now well-known names.
The arrangement of the pieces in alphabetical order of contributors rather than according to subject creates a haphazard, piecemeal impression. Nevertheless, the respective portraits that emerge of these three founding figures of analytical psychology are surprisingly homogeneous: Emma Jung comes over as strong and quiet, warm, gracious, sensitive, and authentic, a woman with her own ideas and her