Kirsch’s Selected Writings. He is one of the core creators of the Jungian world as we find it today. His knowledge of the history, the issues, and the personalities is second to none. We Jungians know that Tom is kind, empathetic, related – and responsible for a raft of interesting publications never before gathered into one book. Maybe we overlooked how penetrating and controversial an observer of professional political process he is. At points in the book, he can be said to have taken no prisoners. I entered the Jungian world in 1974, and I first met Tom at the Rome Congress of the International Association for Analytical Psychology (IAAP) in 1977. I asked him a question about his presentation and the consequent friendship stuck so that we easily talked about ourselves as “older brother” and “younger brother.” Later, I served under him on the Executive Committee of the IAAP and was often employed as an emissary or even as a sort of fixer. He was a remarkable president who foresaw the global possibilities for analytical psychology.