TLS signed “C. G. Jung,” one page, 8.25 x 11, personal letterhead, January 30, 1951. Letter to Grant Code in New York, in part: "As far as I can judge from the distance, the case of the child you describe is that of a hysterical dissociation. Of course it would be important to know what the contents of her dissociated conditions are. In cases where people either cannot talk or are apparently unconscious of the contents of their abnormal conditions, I induce them to make drawings of their phantasies or to draw or paint any phantastical stuff that occurs to them. I think it would be interesting in this case to try this method. If the child produces something and shows it to you, you just react naturally and if you see anything of importance or interest in it, you just ask her about it…It often happens that drawing gives people such a satisfaction that they continue all by themselves. It forms sometimes an important and most helpful outlet for bottled up unconscious phantasies. This is a badly prejudiced case, I'm afraid, and the outlook into the future is not particularly bright. But in the right hands even such people can develop and become not exactly normal but at least possible." In fine condition, with light creasing and a small chip to the bottom edge. Accompanied by the original mailing envelope and Code's four-page retained carbon copy describing the 13-year-old girl's pitiable condition. Jung was an early practitioner of art therapy, believing that art-making had the power to alleviate or contain feelings of trauma, fear, or anxiety. A fascinating and significant letter from the pioneering psychoanalyst.
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