Sally V Keil

Sally V. Keil is a writer with a long-time interest in women's issues and the psychology of Carl Jung. Born in Glens Falls, New York, she grew up in suburban Washington, D. C., and lived for many years in New York City. She graduated from Vassar College and earned her masters degree in Comparative Literature at New York University in New York and Paris. Following the death of a beloved aunt who had flown B-17s during World War II, she traveled around America searching for other women who had flown airplanes for the Army Air Forces with the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP). From these interviews and research in previously top-secret Air Force archives, she wrote Those Wonderful Women in their Flying Machines: The Unknown Heroines of World War II. Turning toward an inward journey, she discovered the works of Carl Jung. She attended seminars at the New York Jung Institute and trained with psychologist and author Robert A. Johnson. Attending Columbia University School of Social Work, she worked with substance abuse patients. She also ran women's groups on issues ranging from women's relationship with money to definitions of femininity today. Her interest in typology, Jung's description of how different people perceive and process experience, instigated many years of observation and discovery about herself and her relationships, including her family and the people she encountered in work and life situations. She has taught typology to individuals and over the course of twelve years wrote To Live in the World as Ourselves: Self-Discovery and Better Relationships Through Jung's Typology. She lives with her husband in New York's Hudson Valley, does psychological counseling and is writing a book about a Greek myth that describes the life of a modern woman.