2008/01/01 by Thomas B. Kirsch · 2 citations
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paper · doi:10.1525/jung.2008.2.1.78
published in Jung Journal 2(1), 78-97 (Taylor & Francis)
openalex publication_date 2008/01/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/29
This is a biographical sketch of Joseph Lewis Henderson who was born on August 31, 1903, and who died on November 17, 2007, at age 104. Henderson was born in Elko, Nevada, went east to prep school and Princeton where he graduated with a B.A. in 1927. He traveled to Zürich in 1929 where he spent a year in analysis with Jung and attended the Dream Seminar. He received his medical degree in London from Saint Bartholomew’s and then returned to New York in 1938 to begin his practice as a Jungian analyst. In 1940 he settled in San Francisco where he lived for the rest of his life. He practiced as a Jungian analyst from 1938 until 2005. He was a founding member of the professional Jungian society in San Francisco and president of its society two times. He wrote a chapter in Man and His Symbols, edited by Jung, as well as books on initiation, cultural attitudes, alchemy, and numerous clinical papers, books, and movie reviews. His wife, Helena Darwin Cornford, and daughter, Elizabeth, predeceased him. He was the last of the first generation of Jungian analysts who had their primary analysis with Jung.