Contributors to This Issue

Beth Barmack (USA) has over 25 years experience as a depth psychotherapist and Jungian analyst and works with adults, adolescents, couples and groups. She is on the teaching faculty at the C.G. Jung Institute of San Francisco, where she also supervises. Beth has coordinated year-long programmes for extended education for professionals in the field. She has been on the teaching/supervising faculty at J.F.K. University and California Institute of Integral Studies. For the past four years Beth Barmack has been a member of an ongoing Tavistock infant observation group for analysts; she also co-leads an infant observation group for Jungian analysts. Email: bbarmack@sbcglobal.net

Virginia Humphrey (USA) is a licensed psychologist and a Jungian analyst from the C.G. Jung Institute of San Francisco. She has been in private practice for over twenty years, in Palo Alto, treating children, adolescents and adults. During her Fellowship at the Children's Hospital at Stanford, she studied psychological disorders of infants and toddlers. For the past ten years Virginia has been a member of an ongoing Tavistock infant observation group of six analysts working under the direction of Angela Sowa. She co-leads an infant observation group for five Jungian analysts through the C.G. Jung Institute, San Francisco, in addition to teaching infant observation to candidates and therapists through the Institute's Extended Education Program and the Child Colloquium. Email:

Richard L. Kradin (USA) is a Jungian analyst and a medical internist. He is on the medical staff of the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and the MGH Center for Psychoanalytical Studies. He is an associate professor at Harvard Medical School; he also teaches at the C.G. Jung Institute, Boston, at the Pacifica Graduate School, and is in private analytical practice. His most recent publications are The Herald Dream: The Implications of the Initial Dream in Analysis published in 2006 by Karnac Books, and The Plac