WOUNDED HEALER ANALYSIS

Carl Jung is a a heroine of mine for several reasons. He did study with Sigmund Freud; however, he branched off during his mid-life crisis because he realized that there is more to life than psychosexual stages. He believed in the collective unconscious; a sense of spirituality and the idea that countertransference can actually be helpful to the patient rather than harmful to the analyst. He believes dreams can be interpreted for healing and countertransference because they provide patients with images of their private inner world. He believes that we are all searching to fill a certain void, whether it is our anima (the unconventional, irrational, feminine side) or the animus (masculinity). I think that we all need a little of both in us to feel balanced. As implicated in The Wounded Healer; it’s a matter of how you can handle being wounded, that can bring relief to clients. The more wounds the analyst is capable of tolerating, the more countertransference is plausible; thus helping the patient to continue with recovery. As Carl Jung mentions; the analysts volatile emotions will never be totally worked through [as will anyone's for that matter] but should be calmed, and can be reconstallated under the impact of the patients unconscious. (p.107). As the patient speaks in therapy, there are certain unconscious emotions that unravel known as transference. As the analyst listens, he becomes aware of his own wounds, but nevertheless knows he cannot relay them to the patient. Instead he must get “used” by the client through empathy, and that based on a transient identification; the analyst must feel that he/she has or shares the problem (p.103).

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