John Beebe

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

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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.

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 person's dominant (most preferred) function is the “hero” (or "heroine"), which is most closely allied with a semi-conscious complex called the “anima” (or "animus"). The hero is also challenged by an “opposing personality”. The next most preferred, or auxiliary, function is the good parent, which may be counteracted by a shadowy witch/senex complex; similarly the tertiary function (“child”) may be undermined by a more juvenile “trickster”. Finally, the anima may find itself forced to compete with a demonic personality function which threatens to destroy it.[ dubious discuss ] [6] 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) ISBN   978-0-99760760-4 and in Building Blocks of Personality Type, by Leona Haas and Mark Hunziker (2006) ISBN   978-0-9719326-2-3, pp. 177–179.


Jungian cognitive functions used in the Eight-function model
Feeling
Intuition
Sensing
Thinking
IntrovertedFi Introverted FeelingNi Introverted IntuitionSi Introverted SensingTi Introverted Thinking
ExtrovertedFe Extroverted FeelingNe Extroverted IntuitionSe Extroverted SensingTe Extroverted Thinking


The archetypal roles of different Jungian cognitive functions according to Beebe's model
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 - DaemonFeTeTeFe

Publications

See also

References

  1. Henderson, Robert & Janice (2006). Living with Jung. p. 94.
  2. Kirsch, Thomas (2000). The Jungians: A Comparative and Historical Perspective. pp. 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 (2001). "What Freudians Can Learn From Jung". Psychoanalytic Psychology. 18 (2): 9–13. doi:10.1037/0736-9735.18.2.213.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  5. Casement, Ann (2001). Carl Gustaf Jung. pp. 142–143, 152–154.
  6. "A New Model of Psychological Types - Beebe". C. G. Jung Institute of Chicago. Retrieved 2025-05-12.

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