First-generation Jungian analyst, Jane Hollister Wheelwright (1905-2004) found the transition into young adulthood challenging. During her formative years, she lived in the coastal wilderness of the Hollister Ranch in Santa Barbara County, California. The Hollister Ranch allowed Wheelwright freedoms unusual for women of her time and shaped her psyche. When she reached marriageable age, Wheelwright was expected to conform to the societal norms for a young woman of her era, norms that were too constraining for Wheelwright and did not affirm her values and experiences. Wheelwright was caught between the primitive values of her early years and the civilized values of the world she was expected to enter. After her freshman year at Bryn Mawr College, Wheelwright searched for a life path that would allow her to be herself. At this difficult time, her uncle, muckraking American journalist, Lincoln Steffens, mentored Wheelwright. He affirmed her gifts and brought her into the sophisticated world of the American expatriate in Europe in the mid-1920s. Wheelwright believed that her uncle Steffens had rescued her, and she credited Steffens and C. G. Jung with freeing her to be herself.