The Wounded Healer (Routledge Mental Health Classic Editions)

In the years since the publication of "The Wounded Healer," countertransference has become a central consideration in the analytic process. David Sedgwick s work was ground-breaking in tackling this difficult topic from a Jungian perspective and demonstrating how countertransference can be used in positive ways. Sedgwick s extended study of the process candidly presents the analyst s struggles and shows how the analyst is, as Jung said, "as much in the analysis as the patient." The book extends Jung s prescient work on countertransference to create a dynamic view of the analyst-patient interaction, stressing the importance of the analyst s own woundedness and how this may be used in conjunction with the patient s own. Sedgwick begins with a discussion of the need and justification for a Jungian approach to countertransference, then reviews Jungian theories and presents detailed illustrations of cases showing the complexity of transference-countertransference processes in both the patient and the analyst, and concludes with a model of countertransference processing. This Classic Edition also includes a new introduction by the author. It will be an important work for Jungian analysts, psychotherapists and other clinicians and students interested in the struggles of the therapeutic process."

• | Author: David Sedgwick
• | Publisher: Routledge
• | Publication Date: Jun 28, 2016
• | Number of Pages: 172 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 1138933066
• | ISBN-13: 9781138933064