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With Integrity in Depth John Beebe points out that most of us aspire to integrity of character and he is sympathetic to that aspiration. Definitions of integrity emphasize such attributes as consistency, reliability and uprightness. Beebe quotes Cicero as saying that the essence of integrity ‘is that we really should be what we want our fellow human beings to think we are’ (p. 13). This makes integrity sound earnest and stoical, a bit like Polonius's advice to Hamlet. It could be a prescription to set us up for hypocrisy and failure. How then do we square these values with those of depth psychology? After all, analytical psychology forces us to become aware of the shadow, to realize our internal