Hello. I am a retired instructional designer in business and industry in the USA. I have studied Swiss Psychiatrist, Carl G. Jung, PhD, MD, since 1965 to better understand myself and others. I also was fascinated by the writings of American John Steinbeck and became aware of the possible influence of Jung's ideas on his thoughts and subsequently his fiction and non-fiction. I discovered that there was considerable Jungian influence on Steinbeck from about 1922 when he was an on-again, off-again student at Stanford University in California. Many of Steinbecks' ideas were crystallized in conversations with Edward F. Ricketts (Doc in Steinbeck's Cannery Row novels); Jungian Mythologist, Joseph Campbell; writer Henry Miller, and many others in the 1930s. My goal has been to take the ideas to a level for easier visualization and to make them useful. I've never had interest in becoming a clinician with my psychology studies but to apply what I learn in doing better training or human performance needs analysis and developing better instructional material. And I've had some success with these goals. My brief bio may be seen at http://www.hallowquest.com/wes.htm. I believe the ideas I developed based on the foundations I found in Jung and Steinbeck have value anywhere that a better understanding of people, especially of individuals is sought and would nicely compliment research developed and executed from a behaviorist perspective.
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