Diana Baynes Jansen

"This is an interesting and skillfully-written autobiography. Diana writes of her full and eventful life in language that is both simple and engaging. One may follow her self-discovery through the account, but one suspects that she is unaware that she is truly a remarkable woman. Her autobiography will be a lasting treasure for her family and friends."Diana Baynes Jansen has lived a long and varied life. She has a big family with three daughters by her first husband, David Crockford, and four stepsons from her second marriage to Christopher Jansen. There are fifteen grandchildren from their combined families. She has been widowed twice and now lives alone in the home in Northumberland where she has spent the last 50 years of her life.Diana works as a Jungian orientated psychotherapist and sandplay therapist. She is the author of an acclaimed biography of her father, H.G.Baynes, (Jung's Apprentice), who was a close friend and colleague of C.G.Jung.She began her working life as a nurse and later studied at the Guildhall School of Music to become a professional singer. After her marriage to Christopher she went to London to train as a psychotherapist. She is still working part time and also has time to write and to enjoy her garden.

"This is an interesting and skillfully-written autobiography. Diana writes of her full and eventful life in language that is both simple and engaging. One may follow her self-discovery through the account, but one suspects that she is unaware that she is truly a remarkable woman. Her autobiography will be a lasting treasure for her family and friends."Diana Baynes Jansen has lived a long and varied life. She has a big family with three daughters by her first husband, David Crockford, and four stepsons from her second marriage to Christopher Jansen. There are fifteen grandchildren from their combined families. She has been widowed twice and now lives alone in the home in Northumberland where she has spent the last 50 years of her life.Diana works as a Jungian orientated psychotherapist and sandplay therapist. She is the author of an acclaimed biography of her father, H.G.Baynes, (Jung's Apprentice), who was a close friend and colleague of C.G.Jung.She began her working life as a nurse and later studied at the Guildhall School of Music to become a professional singer. After her marriage to Christopher she went to London to train as a psychotherapist. She is still working part time and also has time to write and to enjoy her garden.

Dr Helton Godwin Baynes was C.G. Jungs medical assistant in Zurich, becoming the eminent psychiatrists close friend and confidante. Baynes introduced Jungian psychology to Britain and led the English Jungian community for twenty years. He started the Jungian Analytical Psychology Club in London (APC) and laid the foundations for a Jungian Medical Society with the three aims of providing therapy, education and research. Baynes was the author of the first two major Jungian books to be written in English: "Mythology of the Soul" and "Germany Possessed", and together with his second wife, Cary, he translated all of Jungs earlier writings into English. He arranged for Jung to visit England to lecture at the Tavistock Clinic, at the AP Club, to the medical students at Barts Hospital, and at Oxford University. Baynes brought a greater psychological awareness to war-time Britain in his lectures throughout the UK and his religious broadcasts with Archbishop Temple. He was a giant personality. At Cambridge he read medicine; he rowed twice in the boat race and was an outstanding singer. He counted among his friends many of the leading writers, poets, musicians and thinkers of his day.He was a central figure in the avant-garde circles surrounding Rupert Brooke and Arnold Bax. Included in this fascinating account of a charismatic and larger than life personality, there is previously unpublished material from Baynes' journals relating to his analysis with Jung as well as previously unpublished correspondence between Baynes and Jung. In the words of the composer Arnold Bax, Baynes was 'the most all-round man of his generation'.