John Beebe > Quotes

“The analyst’s specific discovery, beyond her or his initiation as patient and physician, is of a certain helplessness in the face of the unconscious. Only a period of helplessness at the hands of the unconscious can promote openness to the unconscious’s own solutions that is the analyst’s stock in trade. Such radical openness is never achieved through a graded series of gentle shocks. Rather, it is almost always the effect of at least one sudden, unexpected wounding, what James Hillman has called “betrayal.” And,”
― John Beebe, Jungian Perspectives on Clinical Supervision

“a too rapid need for meaning can serve as a defense against meaning’s emergence. One”
― John Beebe, Jungian Perspectives on Clinical Supervision

“The analyst’s vulnerability has to be greater even than the vulnerability any other patient has to learn to accept. It is a good thing for an analyst to learn early that every patient suffers from the analytic process, but the vulnerability that the analyst must learn to accept goes beyond the humility that every physician must find toward the mystery of wounding and healing. The”
― John Beebe, Jungian Perspectives on Clinical Supervision

“How in practice do I know – or believe to know – that the requisite progress has been made so that I can recommend the trainee for associate membership? The answer is as subjective as it is brief, and the strength of my conviction depends on my being able to answer three questions in the affirmative. They are in ascending order: (a) Would I send him a patient? (b) Would I send him a patient whom I myself would take on for analysis? (c) Would I entrust myself to him or her for analysis? This last ‘criterion’ should not be taken to be more than a fleeting thought.2”
― John Beebe, Jungian Perspectives on Clinical Supervision

“Intuition brings us a sense of the ecology of integrity, for intuition is the function that gives a feeling for the entire pattern operating in a given moment.”
― John Beebe, Integrity in Depth

“Supervision, he says, is really a shared fantasy of what is actually going on – it is the result of a “trainee trying to imagine what he and his patient have been doing together and the supervisor (plus case seminar participants) trying to imagine it too.” Supervision works best, he says, “if all parties remain aware that what they are jointly imagining is not true.”
― John Beebe, Jungian Perspectives on Clinical Supervision