Beatrice Moses Hinkle (1874–1953) was a pioneering American feminist, psychoanalyst, writer, and translator.
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Hinkle was born in San Francisco, California, to physician B. Frederick Moses and Elizabeth Benchley Van Geisen. In 1892 she married Walter Scott Hinkle, an assistant district attorney. Hinkle had considered studying law, but after being discouraged by her husband "with a good hardy laugh", she entered Cooper Medical College (now part of Stanford University) in 1895.
Hinkle's major distinction is that she was the first to present Carl Jung's writing to the English-speaking world. Her writings were in an era very much dominated by the teachings of Sigmund Freud, and regarding the schism that had developed between Freud and Jung, she found herself "more in sympathy with the rigid sexual hypotheses of the strictly Freudian analysts".
Hinkle was a member of the Greenwich Village based feminist network, the Heterodoxy Club, lending credence to the group by being the only professionally trained and practicing psychoanalyst. It was as a member of this group that she began writing, including occasional contributions to Progessive Education Survey and Harper's Magazine. Her themes included women's rights, women's suffrage, and issues of divorce, individualism, and legal status. She wrote often of the need for women to liberate themselves from what she called the "psychic bondage" of women to men.
Her book, The Re-Creating of the Individual: A Study of Psychological Types and Their Relation to Psychoanalysis, was favorably reviewed in the New York Times in 1923. In addition to her own writing and Jung translations, she also contributed to the books The Book of Marriage by Herman Keyserling, and Our Changing Morality by Freda Kirchwey.
Her autobiographical essay was published in 2003 in These Modern Women: Autobiographical Essays from the Twenties, edited by Elaine Showalter.