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Mrs. Zabriskie: I am delighted to introduce John Beebe. Personally, because he's an old friend; professionally because he's been a wonderful member of NAAP and I think he will present the Jungian point of view to us in a very approachable form. He's a member of the C.G. Jung Institute in San Francisco, and an editor of their Institute Library Journal, which covers topics that usually deal with the interface between psychology and culture. He is a lecturer, not only on clinical topics but also on the relationship between psychology and forms of art. He's written a book called, Psychiatric Treatment; Crisis, Clinic and Consultation. On another end of the spectrum he's edited a book on money, food, drink, fashion and analytic training.
When I entered analytic training, I imagined that I would learn to dispense analysis as I had already learned to dispense other medicines—I had no doubt that analysis was something that an analyst dispensed. My picture of the way that the unconscious was made conscious involved the patient's progressive assimilation of bits of truth that the analyst made available by means of well-timed, accurate interpretations. I was of course aware that material the analyst hadn't anticipated could be made accessible through interpretations of the defenses against facing such material, but this fact only reinforced my view that the analyst's interpretations were essential. As I saw it, the analyst was in control of the entire process: if the analyst did not do his work properly, the analysis could not proceed.
I felt supported in this view by the exceptionally conscientious example of my own analyst, who finally, after much reflection on