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I appreciate the careful reading that Covington and Cambray have given to my article on Tina Keller. Cambray went so far as to review the Countway manuscript and an autobiographical article written by Tina Keller. Their comments were insightful, although I feel they did not grasp fully the professional restraint I employed as an historian always to ground my reporting in historical fact and evidence.
In Covington's response to the Tina Keller article, she mentioned that I had put together some ‘very interesting and tantalizing excerpts’ from the available autobiographical materials written by Tina Keller concerning her analyses with Jung and Wolff. These excerpts she called ‘snapshots which are incomplete and inevitably portray a one-sided view of these analyses…’.
I would like to say in reply that the ‘snapshots’ are in accordance with the available historical documents and records that Keller wrote. There is a great difference between historical reconstruction, which relies solely on evidence and documentation, and using historical materials as a basis for clinical analysis of the material from a contemporary perspective. In the autobiographical writings of Keller, there are gaps in the historical record, and thus the appearance of incompleteness. Historical reconstruction does not present a continuous narrative; rather, it records specific moments in time that can be discontinuous and fragmented.
Regarding the claim that the article is ‘one-sided’, I prefer to say that it is ‘one-voiced’. It is the voice of Tina Keller as an individual in analysis with Jung and Wolff and, as such, reflects her personal perspective. As far as we know, neither Jung nor Wolff left any written documents or reports on their work with Keller, thus we are left with Keller's voice to learn about her experiences with them.
Cambray begins his response by acknowledging that the article on Tina Keller is purposefully constructed as a work of historical scholarship, and as such is true to its foc