a Physicist turned psychiatrist sees personal transformation in a beautiful mathematical yet meaningful language

PETER HOLLAND, M.D. is a psychiatrist and Jungian analyst in private practice in Aptos. He teaches candidates in analytic training at the C.G. Jung Institute of San Francisco, and gives talks to therapists and others on analysis and its connection to other disciplines, such as literature, movies, science and mathematics. He is particularly interested in various kinds of personal transformation. Psychiatry is a second career. In his 20s, he was a theoretical physicist, specializing in the theory of elementary particles. He still finds this occupies his mind; he is known to relax by working out a mathematical proof on the back of an envelope.