John Beebe, M.D. is a Jungian analyst and psychiatrist in private practice in San Francisco, California.
He graduated from Harvard University with a Bachelor of Arts in English in 1961 and went on to attend medical school at the University of Chicago where he received a Doctor of Medicine in 1965. After an internship at the United States Public Health Service Hospital in the Presidio of San Francisco, he practiced as a psychiatrist before deciding to train as a Jungian analyst. He earned his Diploma in Analytical Psychology (the degree of a Jungian analyst) from the C.G. Jung Institute of San Francisco in 1978.
Dr. Beebe has been in private practice for over forty years. He served as president of the San Francisco Jung Institute, founded the San Francisco Jung Institute Library Journal (now titled Jung Journal: Culture & Psyche), and was the first American co-editor of the London-based Journal of Analytical Psychology. He taught as a clinical assistant professor of psychiatry at the University of California Medical School San Francisco and is a Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association.
In 1991, he delivered the annual Fay Lecture Series. His talks on Integrity in Depth were published the following year by Texas A&M University Press. He is the author of Energies & Patterns in Psychological Type: The Reservoir of Consciousness (Routledge, 2017), and co-author with Jungian analyst Virginia Apperson of The Presence of the Feminine in Film (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008). He is also the editor of Jung’s Aspects of the Masculine (Princeton University Press, 1989), part of the series Extracts from the Collected Works of C.G. Jung, and co-editor with Ernst Falzeder, Ph.D. of The Question of Psychological Types: The Correspondence of C.G. Jung & Hans Schmid-Guisan, 1915-1916 (Princeton University Press, 2013). His essay, “The Trickster in the Arts,” was just republished this month in the volume, Anthology of Contemporary Clinical Classics in Analytical Psychology: The New Ancestors, edited by Jungian analyst Stefano Carpani.
Dr. Beebe is with us today to discuss the latest volume in the series of Jung’s lectures delivered at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zürich). The book is part of the Philemon Series of the Philemon Foundation, published by Princeton University Press. It is volume 2, Consciousness and the Unconscious, edited by Ernst Falzeder, Ph.D.
This video interview was livestreamed on Wednesday, May 11, 2022. It’s 01:06:58 long and 58.5 MB. You can listen to it right here in your browser (click the play button on the bar below) or download it directly to your computer. You can also watch the video edition of this interview on our YouTube channel.
SHOW NOTES
New addition: Miss Frank Miller: Jung’s Sherpa from Alabama by Samuel L. Ryals, Quadrant: The Journal of the C.G. Jung Foundation, XLVIII:1, Spring/Summer 2018
John Beebe in Conversation with Beverley Zabriskie Journal of Analytical Psychology, 2011: Vol. 56, Issue 3
John Beebe – A Life in Jungian Practice: A Spiritual Biography Michael Lerner in conversation with John Beebe, The New School at Commonweal, Nov. 11, 2019 (full video)
Philemon Foundation Completing the works of C.G. Jung
The Eranos Foundation Founded by Olga Fröbe Kapteyn (1881–1962)
History of Modern Psychology C.G. Jung’s Lectures Delivered at ETH Zürich, Vol. 1: 1933-1934
Consciousness & the Unconscious C.G. Jung’s Lectures Delivered at ETH Zürich, Vol. 2: 1934
Webster’s Third New International Dictionary Unabridged and Seven Language Dictionary (Vols. One, Two and Three)
The Golden Bowl by Henry James
Steps to an Ecology of Mind: Collected Essays in Anthropology, Psychiatry, Evolution, & Epistemology by Gregory Bateson
Being the Ricardos with Nicole Kidman
Creative Evolution by Henri Bergson
Psychology of the Unconscious by C.G. Jung
Jung & the Making of Modern Psychology: The Dream of a Science by Sonu Shamdasani, Ph.D.
Mind: An Essay on Human Feeling, Vol. 1 by Susanne K. Langer, Ph.D.
Selected Works of Gertrude Stein Includes her poem, “Sacred Emily” (“Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose”)
How Natives Think by Lucien Lévy-Bruhl
HIS BOOKS
Anthology of Contemporary Clinical Classics in Analytical Psychology: The New Ancestors Includes his essay, “The Trickster in the Arts”
C.G. Jung: Aspects of the Masculine Editor
Energies & Patterns in Psychological Type: The Reservoir of Consciousness His book
Integrity in Depth His 1991 Fay Lecture Series in book form; also available from Texas A&M University Press as a free PDF
Money, Food, Drink, Fashion, & Analytic Training: Depth Dimensions of Physical Existence Proceedings of the Eighth International Congress for Analytical Psychology, 1980 (Editor)
Terror, Violence & the Impulse to Destroy Proceedings of the 2002 North American Conference of Jungian Analysts & Candidates (Editor)
The Essential Jung Selected & Introduced by Anthony Storr with a new Foreword by John Beebe
The Presence of the Feminine in Film Co-authored with Virginia Apperson, Ph.D., Jungian analyst
The Question of Psychological Types: The Correspondence of C.G. Jung & Hans Schmid-Guisan, 1915-1916 Co-editor with Ernst Falzeder, Ph.D.
HIS ARTICLES
At Home with Himself: John Beebe at 65 by Robert S. Henderson, Psychological Perspectives, 2004: Vol. 47, Issue 2
John Beebe in Conversation with Beverley Zabriskie Journal of Analytical Psychology, 2011: Vol. 56, Issue 3
John Beebe’s Special Issue on Typology: 100 Years Later Journal of Analytical Psychology, Nov. 2021: Vol. 66, Issue 5
Jung Becomes Jung: A Dialogue on Liber Novus (The Red Book) Psychological Perspectives, 2010: Vol. 53, Issue 4
An Interview with John Beebe on the 40th Anniversary of Jung Journal: Culture & Psyche by Jeffrey Moulton Benevedes, Jung Journal, Jan. 2020: Vol. 14, Issue 1
Psychological Types by John Beebe; IAAP.org’s series on Analytical Psychology
The Trickster in the Arts The San Francisco Jung Institute Library Journal, Winter 1981: Vol. 2, No. 2
Here is a full list of issues of The San Francisco Jung Institute Library Journal (1979-2006) and Jung Journal: Culture & Psyche (2007-Current)
HIS INTERVIEWS
Adventures in Jungian Typology Dr. Beebe discusses psychological types on Shrink Rap Radio, Feb. 29, 2008 (full audio)
A Jungian View of the Feminine in Film Dr. Beebe discusses his book, The Presence of The Feminine in Film, on Shrink Rap Radio, Aug. 1, 2008 (full audio)
Cronenberg’s A Dangerous Method Dr. Beebe discusses the Hollywood film about Jung, Freud, and Sabina Spielrein on Shrink Rap Radio, Apr. 1, 2012 (full audio)
John Beebe – A Life in Jungian Practice: A Spiritual Biography Michael Lerner in conversation with John Beebe, The New School at Commonweal, Nov. 11, 2019 (full video)