Maxson J. McDowell PhD, LMSW, LP, is a Jungian analyst in private practice in New York City. He is a past president of the C. G. Jung Foundation of New York and a faculty member and supervisor at the C. G. Jung Institute of New York, and at the Westchester Institute. Dr. McDowell studied for ten years as a painter in New York with Robert Casper, who studied with Hans Hofmann, a contemporary of Braque and Picasso in the School of Paris. Previously Dr. McDowell was a tenured college professor in biology and, before that, did experimental research in molecular biology at Duke University, M.I.T., and the M.R.C. Laboratories in Cambridge, England.