The Psychology of The Wounded Healer

The wounded healer refers to the capacity to be at home in the darkness of suffering and there to find germs of light and recovery. It is the archetype at the bottom of all genuine healing procedures. As long as we feel victimised, bitter and resentful towards our wound, and seek to escape from suffering it, we remain inescapably bound to it. This is neurotic suffering, as opposed to the authentic suffering of the wounded healer which is purified. The wound can destroy you, or it can wake you up. As Carl Jung wrote, "The doctor is effective only when he himself is affected. Only the wounded physician heals."

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⌛ Timestamps

0:00 Introduction: The Wounded Healer
1:39 Chiron: The Wounded Healer
4:03 Asclepius: The Greek God of Healing
6:13 Asclepieia: Healing Temples
11:12 The Importance of Death
15:06 The Wound as Initiation: Hero’s Journey
17:30 The Sacred and The Profane
19:59 The Wound as Initiation: Shamanism
21:49 Compensatory function
22:51 Repetition Compulsion
23:32 Pharmakon: Poison and Cure
24:26 Therapist as Wounded Healer
29:49 Conclusion

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