The Agony of Integration and the Blessings of Finitude - Facing ‘Extinction Points’ and Moments of Madness

Christiane Brooks Johnson Professor Emerita of Psychology and Religion at Union Theological Seminary, a practising analyst in New York City, a member of the Jungian Psychoanalytic Association in New York City, and a member of the editorial advisory committee for the Journal of Analytical Psychology. She is a recipient of three honorary doctorate degrees, of the Oskar Pfister Award from the American Psychiatric Association, and the Gradiva Award from the National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis for Finding Space: Winnicott, God, and Psychic Reality (Westminster John Knox Press, ). She is the author of six books with her late husband Barry Ulanov, among which are, Cinderella and Her Sisters: The Envied and the Envying; and The Witch and the Clown: Two Archetypes of Human Sexuality, and by herself author of 16 books, among which are The Female Ancestors of Christ; Madness & Creativity; Knots and Their Untying; The Psychoid, Soul and Psyche: Piercing Space-Time Barriers. Email: