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Margit van Leight-Frank
(January 9, 1898 – February 8, 1989)
— V. Walter Odajnyk

On the morning of February 8, 1989, Margit van Leight-Frank, a beloved friend, cherished colleague, and respected analyst, died at her home in Weston, Connecticut. … Margit was born in 1898 in Berlin, Germany. In 1936 she escaped the Nazi regime and settled in London. She had begun her analytic work with Dr. Jung in Zürich and Dr. Heyer in Munich, and now continued with Dr. H.G. Baynes.…

James Kirsch (1901–1989) — Gilda Frantz

James Isaac Kirsch, M.D., died on March 17, 1989 at his home in Los Angeles. … He studied with C.G. Jung in the late 1920s, and was in continual touch with him until Dr. Jung’s death in 1961. … The work of C.G. Jung was not a mere concept or theory to James Kirsch; it was a total commitment to the reality of the psyche, and it was his life. …

The Therapeutic Utilization of Countertransference — Warren Steinberg

The topic of countertransference is actually a subtopic of the idea of the “wounded healer.” While there is renewed interest in this idea, little appears in print or public discussion about the specific wounds the healer has to contend with and how they affect treatment. In addition, the psychological processes the analyst goes through in trying to derive meaning from his inner experiences need to be more fully elaborated. In discussing these topics, my goal is not revelation for the sake of revelation, but it is an attempt to stimulate further discussion on how we, as analysts, utilize our reactions for the therapeutic benefit of our patients. …

A second goal of this article is based on my belief that one of our current research tasks is to differentiate countertransference reactions so that individual analysts, working in the isolation of the consulting room, have a number of working hypotheses to help them understand their reactions. …

Uncursing the Dark: Restoring the Lost Feminine — Betty De Shong Meador

Paper presented at the National Conference of Jungian Analysts, “The Influence of American Culture on Analysis,” Chicago, September 1987.

I have taken the theme of this conference as an opportunity to examine our culture’s strong bias against the dark. My pursuit rose out of a conviction that women are by their instinctual nature at home in the dark, that women’s natural way of transformation out of an ordered, civilized society is down into the dark and that a female-based religion would include as a natural part of its worship the powers of the dark.

If my convictions have any truth in them, then women in our culture are separated from the pathways of their natural growth. Adapted to a religion of light and a culture which upholds light and reason, women are cut off from their roots and from their creative transformative energies which lie in the chaos and mystery of the dark. …

The Historical Development of the Concept of the Archetype — Richard C. Lewis

Jung’s concept of the archetype underwent a long and continuous modification throughout most of his life. This paper traces the development of the concept from its earliest antecedents in his writings in 1902 to its final form in 1954. …

Book Reviews

Freud – A Life For Our Time— Peter Gay. New York-London: W.W. Norton. 1988. Reviewed by S. A. Leavy.

Jung: A Biography— Gerhard Wehr. Translated by David M. Weeks. Boston: Shambhala. 1987. Reviewed by Harry W. Fogarty.

The Psychotic Core— Michael Eigen. New Jersey: Jason Aronson. 1987. Reviewed by Nathan Schwartz-Salant.

Other Lives, Other Selves— Roger J. Woolger. New York: Doubleday. 1987. Reviewed by Betsy Halpern.

Women in Twentieth-Century Literature: A Jungian View— Bettina L. Knapp. University Park and London: The Pennsylvania State University Press. 1987. Reviewed by Stefanie Woodbridge.

The Dreambody in Relationships— Arnold Mindell. London and New York: Routledge & Kegan Paul. 1987. Reviewed by Polly Young-Eisendrath.

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