Beatrice Hinkle (1874 – 1953) was a pioneering American physician, psychoanalyst, writer, and translator. In 1905 Hinkle became the first woman in the country to hold a public health position when she was appointed as San Francisco’s city physician. After becoming interested in psychotherapy, she moved to New York City in 1908 where she co-founded the country’s first therapeutic clinic at Cornell Medical School. She is noted as being the first to present Carl Jung’s writing to the English-speaking world. Her book, The Re-Creating of the Individual: A Study of Psychological Types and Their Relation to Psychoanalysis, was published in 1923.

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