A measure of our need for integrity, John Beebe writes, is that "we 
rarely allow ourselves an examination of the concept itself. To do so 
would betray an unspoken philosophic, poetic, and psychological 
rule of our culture: not to disturb the mystery of what we desire 
most."

    In this book, Beebe reveals much about the nature of integrity 
while honoring its central mystery.

    Beebe traces the evolution of the concept from a moral and 
theological notion to a psychological one. He explores the Eastern 
understanding of integrity, as well, basing his discussion on pre-
Confucian manuscripts of the Tao Te Ching.

    Viewing anxiety and shame as functions of integrity, he shows the 
contributions depth psychology can make to integrity's development. 
He also looks at the ways sex difference and our resulting notions of 
gender have colored our culture's experience and expression of 
integrity.

    Drawing on his own years of experience as a psychotherapist, 
Beebe shows how the holding environment of psychotherapy can 
use delight and rage, and dreams and transference to reveal and 
foster individual integrity. Integrity in Depth is a groundbreaking work 
that moves the reader to think in a new way about the psychological 
basis of moral wholeness.

_________________________________________________________

JOHN BEEBE is a psychiatrist and Jungian analyst and a past 
president of the C. G. Jung Insititute of San Francisco.


Number Two: Carolyn and Ernest Fay Series in Analytical Psychology


What people are saying about this book

"John Beebe has come up with the book we have all been waiting for, 
and having read it, we wonder how we have managed without his finely 
honed and eloquent examination of the subject."—San Francisco Jung 
Institute Library Journal

"One cannot do justice to the vast panorama that Dr. Beebe so 
masterfully paints before us. . . . He writes beautifully, poetically, one 
idea flowing seamlessly into another. Moreover, it is not only written 
about integrity, it is written with integrity—he involves all four functions 
by turns. His writing is intellectually stimulating, exquisitely detailed, full 
of sensitivity and richly intuitive. . . . This is a very stimulating and 
challenging book."—Journal of Analytical Psychology

"John Beebe has fired this beautifully balanced dart of a book right 
to the heart of one of the most important intersections in contemporary 
cultural discourse. . . . the writing invites comparison with Jung himself."
—Andrew Samuels, author of The Plural Psyche

"A virtuoso performance by Dr. Beebe. No one else writing today 
interprets with such clarity the unseen interplay between the psyche 
and the cultural landscape."—Peter Rutter, author of Sex in the 
Forbidden Zone