Barbara Bronson was born in 1933, and raised in a rural community in Connecticut. The summer before she left to study piano at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York sh...view moreBarbara Bronson was born in 1933, and raised in a rural community in Connecticut. The summer before she left to study piano at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York she met John Bronson. A year later he was drafted into the army, she returned home, and they were married in 1952 when she was nineteen and he was twenty one. Shortly after they were married, he was stationed in Germany where she joined him after finishing her sophomore year.
After they returned home, they both continued their studies at the University of Connecticut while starting a family, their daughter Dru and son David. They both worked in education and later psychology. She earned a Master of Science in Speech Pathology while teaching and childrearing, working in this field for twenty years before entering the Jung Institute in Zurich Switzerland at the age of fifty.
She earned her diploma in Analytical Psychology after seven years postgraduate study and returned to Massachusetts as a Jungian Psychoanalyst. She and her husband John continued to live and work in the field of psychology until his death in 1993. After his death she moved to the Northampton area where she co-founded the Western Massachusetts Jung Group in Northampton while building a practice in the area. She continued her private practice until 2014, when she began devoting her time to completing on “Wings of Dreams.”view less