John Beebe Explained

John Beebe (born June 24, 1939) is an American psychiatrist and Jungian analyst in practice in San Francisco.

Beebe was born in Washington, D.C. He received degrees from Harvard College and the University of Chicago medical school. He is a past president of the C. G. Jung Institute of San Francisco, where he is currently on the teaching faculty.[1] He is a Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association.

Professional interests and activities

A popular lecturer in the Jungian world, Beebe has spoken on topics related to the theory and practical applications of Analytical psychology to professional and lay audiences throughout the United States and around the world. He has been especially active in introducing training in Jungian psychology in China. Beebe is the founding editor of The San Francisco Jung Institute Library Journal, now called Jung Journal: Culture & Psyche.[2] He was the first American co-editor of the London-based Journal of Analytical Psychology.

Beebe has also published in The Chiron Clinical Series, Fort Da, Harvest, The Inner Edge, Journal of Jungian Theory and Practice, Psychoanalytic Psychology, Psychological Perspectives, The Psychoanalytic Review, Quadrant, Spring, The Journal of Popular Film and Television, Theory and Psychology, and Tikkun among others. He has contributed book chapters to The Anne Rice Reader, The Cambridge Companion to Jung, From Tradition to Innovation, House, Humanizing Evil, Initiation, Jungian Perspectives on Clinical Supervision, New Approaches to Dream Interpretation, Post-Jungians Today, Psyche & City, The Psychology of Mature Spirituality, Same-Sex Love, The Soul of Popular Culture, and Teaching Jung.

With Donald Sandner, Beebe is the author of "Psychopathology and Analysis",[3] an article on Jungian complex theory used in many training programs, and with Thomas Kirsch and Joe Cambray the author of "What Freudians Can Learn from Jung".[4] He is the author of the book Integrity in Depth, a study of the archetype of integrity, and of Energies and Patterns in Psychological Type: The Reservoir of Consciousness.

An avid film buff, Beebe frequently draws upon American movies to illustrate how the various types of consciousness and unconsciousness interact to produce images of Self and shadow in the stories of our lives that Jung called individuation. His reviews and articles about movies have reached a wide audience. With Virginia Apperson, he is co-author of The Presence of the Feminine in Film. He can be seen discussing film in the documentary The Wisdom of the Dream. Among his better-known papers are “Attitudes Toward the Unconscious", "The Father's Anima as a Clinical and as a Symbolic Problem", "On Male Partnership", "Primary Ambivalence Toward the Self: Its Nature and Treatment", "Toward a Jungian Analysis of Character", and "The Trickster in the Arts".

Eight-function model

Beebe is particularly interested in the way an understanding of typology can foster the development of the capacity to take responsibility for our impact on others. Following up on Jung's theory of psychological types, where the contrasting attitudes of extraversion and introversion colored the judging (rational) functions of thinking and feeling, and the perceiving (irrational) functions of intuition and sensation, he developed an archetypal model of a dialogical self wherein conscious functions contend with more unconscious complexes in the shadow.[5] A discussion and explanation of this model can be found in C. G. Jung, Isabel Myers, John Beebe and the Guide Map to Becoming Who We Are, by Mark Hunziker (2017) and in Building Blocks of Personality Type, by Leona Haas and Mark Hunziker (2006), pp. 177–179.

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Feeling

Intuition

Sensing

Thinking

IntrovertedFi Introverted FeelingNi Introverted IntuitionSi Introverted SensingTi Introverted Thinking
ExtrovertedFe Extroverted FeelingNe Extroverted IntuitionSe Extroverted SensingTe Extroverted Thinking
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Type

ISTJ

ISFJ

INFJ

INTJ

1st - Hero/HeroineSiSiNiNi
2nd - Good ParentTeFeFeTe
3rd - Puer/PuellaFiTiTiFi
4th - Anima/AnimusNeNeSeSe
5th - Opposing PersonalitySeSeNeNe
6th - Senex/WitchTiFiFiTi
7th - TricksterFeTeTeFe
8th - DaemonNiNiSiSi
Type

ISTP

ISFP

INFP

INTP

1st - Hero/HeroineTiFiFiTi
2nd - Good ParentSeSeNeNe
3rd - Puer/PuellaNiNiSiSi
4th - Anima/AnimusFeTeTeFe
5th - Opposing PersonalityTeFeFeTe
6th - Senex/WitchSiSiNiNi
7th - TricksterNeNeSeSe
8th - DaemonFiTiTiFi
Type

ESTP

ESFP

ENFP

ENTP

1st - Hero/HeroineSeSeNeNe
2nd - Good ParentTiFiFiTi
3rd - Puer/PuellaFeTeTeFe
4th - Anima/AnimusNiNiSiSi
5th - Opposing PersonalitySiSiNiNi
6th - Senex/WitchTeFeFeTe
7th - TricksterFiTiTiFi
8th - DaemonNeNeSeSe
Type

ESTJ

ESFJ

ENFJ

ENTJ

1st - Hero/HeroineTeFeFeTe
2nd - Good ParentSiSiNiNi
3rd - Puer/PuellaNeNeSeSe
4th - Anima/AnimusFiTiTiFi
5th - Opposing PersonalityTiFiFiTi
6th - Senex/WitchSeSeNeNe
7th - TricksterNiNiSiSi
8th - DaemonFesTeTeFe

Publications

See also

Further reading

Notes and References

  1. Book: Henderson, Robert & Janice . Living with Jung . 2006 . 94.
  2. Book: Kirsch, Thomas . The Jungians: A Comparative and Historical Perspective . 2000 . 89–90.
  3. "Psychopathology and Analysis", book chapter, originally written with senior co-author Donald Sandner, for Murray Stein, (ed.), Jungian Analysis (Open Court: La Salle, Illinois, 1982)
  4. Beebe, John, Joseph Cambray and Thomas B. Kirsch . What Freudians Can Learn From Jung . Psychoanalytic Psychology . 2001 . 18 . 2 . 9–13. 10.1037/0736-9735.18.2.213 .
  5. Book: Casement, Ann . Carl Gustaf Jung . 2001 . 142–143, 152–154.