About the Author

"We see and hear what we are open to noticing."

With these words, Jerome S. Bernstein opens his book,
Living in the Borderland. The book continues with how
Jerome comes to understand the Borderland -- a
spectrum of reality that is beyond the rational yet is
palpable to an increasing number of individuals.

Jerome received his Bachelor's and Master's degrees
from George Washington University, in Washington,
D.C., where he was born and lived until he moved to
Santa Fe, New Mexico in 1992. He began his
professional career in D.C. working with several
non-profit educational and training organizations for
people with mental and physical disabilities before
becoming the Deputy Director of Manpower Training
programs in the federal Office of Economic Opportunity.
In 1971, he, along with a business partner, founded a
new social science consulting firm, RJ Associates,
through which he contracted with the Navajo nation.
That same year, Native American tribes were given the
right to take over the administration of selected
programs from the federal government under the Indian
Self-Determination Act. Within weeks, the Chairman of
the Navajo Nation invited Jerome to become a consultant
to assist with the development of a tribal Division of
Education as well as being the Tribe's registered lobbyist
on Capitol Hill. This one-week consulting assignment
turned into a six-year professional relationship with the
Navajo Tribe. He has maintained a thirty-five year
relationship with friends and professionals and has been
working to bring the wisdom of Navajo and Western
healing together in a collaborative clinical model.

Through his contacts with the Navajo Nation, and particularly Carl N. Gorman, the Tribe's
Director of the Office Native Healing Sciences, Jerome was exposed to Navajo religion and
healing. This had a profound effect on him, and he began to have healing dreams that
involved Navajo and Hopi medicine men. At the time, he explored these dreams in his
Jungian analysis. Over time, he realized that these dreams were leading him onto a new
path: he was to become a Jungian analyst. In 1980, he graduated from the C. G. Jung
Institute in New York, becoming a Jungian analyst.

He has been in private practice since 1974. He was the founding president of the C. G.
Jung Analysts Association of the Greater Washington, D.C. Metropolitan Area,
vice-president of the C. G. Jung Institute of New York, and past-president of the C.G. Jung
Institute of Santa Fe. He is currently on the teaching faculty of the C. G. Jung Institute of
Santa Fe.

Jerome is married, and has two grown sons, three grandchildren, and Lola, his dog and
hiking companion.