Christina Middlebrook, M.A. lives with advanced breast cancer. She is a Jungian analyst and author of the book, Seeing the Crab: A Memoir of Dying Before I Do. She trained at the C.G.Jung institute of San Francisco where she currently serves on the training faculty. She was born in Illinois, received her B.A. from the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, and Middlebury College, Vermont. She received an M. A. in psychiatric social work from the University of Chicago. She has been in private practive in San Francisco since 1972, and currently lives there with her husband and children.