List of Contributors

DEBORAH BRYON (USA) is a graduate of UCLA and received her doctorate in Counseling Psychology from the University of Denver, before becoming a diplomate Jungian analyst with the Inter-Regional Society of Jungian Analysts. She is the author of several books and articles on Andean medicine, the mesa, and Andean teachings in magazines and Jungian publications, and is a frequent lecturer in the analytic community. In addition to writing, teaching and seeing clients in private practice, Deborah is a painter and member of Spark Gallery. Email: deborahbryon@gmail.com

SHOSHANA FERSHTMAN, J.D., Ph.D., (USA) is a clinical psychologist and member analyst at the C. G. Jung Institute of San Francisco. She is author of The Mystical Exodus in Jungian Perspective: Transforming Trauma and the Wellsprings of Renewal (Routledge, ). Email: drshoshana@shoshanafershtman.com

JEAN KIRSCH, M.D., (USA) is a Jungian analyst practising in Palo Alto, California. She is a graduate of the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, and Stanford University School of Medicine, and is a member of the C. G. Jung Institute of San Francisco, where she is faculty member and past president. Publications include How and Why We Still Read Jung: Personal and Professional Reflections, co-authored with Murray Stein (Routledge, ), and “Group process in Jungian analytic training and institute life,” co-authored with Suzy Spradlin, (Journal of Analytical Psychology, ). Email:

RODERICK MAIN, Ph.D., (UK) works in the Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies at the University of Essex, where he is a professor and the Director of the Centre for Myth Studies. He is the author of The Rupture of Time: Synchronicity and Jung's Critique of Modern Western Culture (Routledge, ), Revelations of Chance: Synchronicity as Spiritual Experience (State University of New York Press, ) and, most recently, Breaking the Spell of Disenchantment: Mystery, Meaning, and Metaphysics in the Work of C. G. Jung (Chiron Publ