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Title: Jane Hollister and Joseph Wheelwright Papers
Physical Description: 69 linear feet (104 boxes)
Repository:
Opus Archives and Research Center
Santa Barbara, CA 93108
Language of Material:
English
Scope and Content Note
The Hollister Wheelwright papers include research notes, manuscripts for articles and
books, essays and books, correspondence files, and photographs.
In the 1960s Joseph served as president of the International Association for
Analytical Psychology, and the collection contains extensive drafts and transcripts
of speeches and articles, and interviews from that time.
Jane Hollister Wheelwright’s writings include lectures on gender and other topics,
and the research files and manuscript drafts for her books
The
Ranch Papers: a California Memoir
(1988);
The Long
Shore: a Psychological Experience of the Wilderness (1991)
with her
daughter Lynda Wheelwright Schmidt; and
Death of a
Woman
(1981).
Joseph Wheelwright’s writings include drafts of numerous lectures on the subjects of
geriatrics, psychological types, the Student Mental Health Clinic at the University
of California Berkeley, the Gray-Wheelwright Type Test, and the book
St. George and the Dandelion: Forty Years of Practice as a
Jungian Analyst
(1982). See the Opus Archives and Research Center website
for a bibliography of the Wheelwrights’ works.
Also held in the collection are interview transcripts about the Franklin Collective,
which was a commune in Vermont during the 1970s; the history of the Hollister Ranch;
Lincoln Steffens, who was a famous Socialist journalist and an uncle of Jane's;
psychotherapy in the United States; and Jane’s experience of studying to be a
Jungian analyst during the 1930s. Sound recordings in the collection include
audiotapes of lectures by Jungians; lectures and interviews by the Wheelwrights; and
an extensive collection of Dictaphone belts, many with typed transcripts, used by
Jane for her correspondence and writings.
Photographs include pictures of C.G. Jung, Marie-Louise von Franz, Mary Briner, and
others.
Biography/Organization History
Jane Hollister Wheelwright (1905-2004) was a Jungian analyst and author, and Joseph
Balch Wheelwright, MD (1906-1999) was a doctor and a Jungian analyst. Both studied
with C.G. Jung, Marie Louise von Franz, and Toni Wolff in Zürich, Switzerland during
the 1930s and practiced in San Francisco beginning in 1941. They were among the
founders of the C.G. Jung Institute of San Francisco, and Joseph served as President
of the International Association of Analytical Psychologogy. They were major figures
in the dissemination of Jung’s ideas in America.
Jane’s practice and writing focused on the connection between wilderness and psyche
and also the psychological processes of death. Joseph taught psychiatry at the
University of California San Francisco Medical Center for over 30 years, which
became a leading psychiatric training institute in the nation.
In later years, they spent much time living on land that had been part of the
Hollister Ranch, located west of Santa Barbara, where Jane had grown up.
Access Information
Correspondence and unpublished documents mentioning persons alive not to be examined
until after their death.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Jungian psychology
Gender identity
Consciousness
Depth psychology
Psychoanalysis
Psychology