Reviews

The Serpent and the Cross offers 62 stirring archetypal paintings, the product of Katherine Sanford's slow and steady psychological work on the early loss of her mother and the subsequent compensatory responses to that loss. This series of paintings and text represent a dialogue with the soul, addressing the deepest complexes of the human psyche.

K. LYNETTE WALKER M.A. Clinical counsellor, author of Mothering, Breast Cancer and Selfhood
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This book is a testament to the nature of the objective psyche as describedby C.G. Jung. During his own time of disorientation he allowed himself to experience his unconscious in great depth. Katherine Sanford has been able to paint her own unconscious images, which have shown the way to healing the mother wound. We are grateful to her for making her process available. It is a rare experience.

THOMAS B. KIRSCH, M.D.Past president of the International Association of Analytic Psychology
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At 89, Jungian analyst Katie Sanford has courageously revealed 60-plus images painted from her unconscious active imagination over a period of 30 years. Personal narrative accompanies these paintings giving insight and interpretation to the symbols and themes that have defined women since time began. As a wife, mother and analyst, Sanford has done something rare by combining her images with Jungian theory. Every woman will find herself within the pages of this book as it reveals and resolves the mystery and meaning behind the wounds and shadows that lurk within us all.

INGRD HOFFMEISTER-Wife, mother, grandmother, psychotherapist and writer
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The Serpent and the Cross is a modern allegory of a woman's heroic psychic struggle to save her life through understanding and relating to some of the darkest elements of the personal and universal unconscious. As Katherine M. Sanford encounters figures of the unconscious, she relates to them as a medium. She brings them to light in her paintings and gives them voice through her poetic dialogues. Because her work is authentic, inner and outer realities begin to impact one another. This thirty-year evolution is documented in this series of 62 paintings. Anyone who has tried psychological work will appreciate the tremendous courage involved in undertaking this awesome journey. Persevering through many years to a meaningful resolution, Katherine Sanford is finally sharing her very intimate psychic odyssey and far-ranging insights with a wider audience.

MELANIE J. MAYER-Professor Emeritus University of California, Santa Cruz Author of Klondike Women, Staking her Claim, and others