Acknowledgments

The author wishes to express his gratitude to all those who have supported him in the work that is represented in these pages:

Ross Woodman, Michael Mendis, Rita Mendis-Mogenson, James Hillman, Mary Helen Sullivan, David L. Miller, Peter VanKatwyk, Susan Estabrooks, and Angela Sheppard.

The author and publisher gratefully acknowledge permission to reprint as follows:

Section III of “Esthétique du Mal,” from The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play by Wallace Stevens, Vintage Books, originally published by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. © by Holly Stevens.

The sections “The Infectious Savior,” “Romanticism,” and “Into Her Own Hands” of this book, previously published in “Stepping Out of the Great Code,” by Greg Mogenson, in Voices: The Art and Science of Psychotherapy, vol. 21, no. 3/4, Fall 1985/Winter 1986. © Voices. Reprinted with permission. The section, “Escaping to the Angels,” previously published as “Escaping to the angels: a note on the passing of the manic defence,” by Greg Mogenson, in The Journal of Analytical Psychology 41/1 (January 1996), pp. 77–80.