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." 📨 Free newsletter: https://eternalisedofficial.com/subscribe ⭐ Support this work on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/eternalised 📺 Support this work on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqos1tl0RntucGGtPXNxkkA/join 🛒 Official Merch: https://eternalised.creator-spring.com 📖 eBooks https://ko-fi.com/eternalised/shop ☕ Donate a Coffee: https://ko-fi.com/eternalised 📘 PayPal: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/eternalisedofficial 📚 My personal library: https://eternalisedofficial.com/library 🎨 Access transcript and artwork gallery: https://eternalisedofficial.com/2022/12/17/psychology-wounded-healer ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📚 Recommended Reading ▶ Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy - Mircea Eliade https://amzn.to/3W8i6Rf ▶ Shaman: The Wounded Healer - Joan Halifax https://amzn.to/3htJp9L ▶ The Sacred and The Profane - Mircea Eliade https://amzn.to/3V7Euci 🎧 Prefer Audiobooks? Get a 30-day Audible Plus FREE trial: ▶ https://amzn.to/332zPzN ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📺 Odysee ➔ https://odysee.com/@eternalised 📺 Rumble ➔ https://rumble.com/c/Eternalised 🐦 Twitter ➔ https://twitter.com/eternalised1 📷 Instagram ➔ https://www.instagram.com/eternalised_official 📘 Facebook ➔ https://www.facebook.com/eternalised 🎧 Podcast ➔ https://anchor.fm/eternalised ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎶 Music used 1. As the World Fell Background Music – CO.AG 2. Relent – Kevin MacLeod 3. Crystal Dream Mix Background Music – CO.AG 4. Lightless Dawn – Kevin MacLeod 5. Heartbreaking – Kevin MacLeod 6. Stillstand – Myuu 7. Undertow – Scott Buckley 8. Charms Waves – Sergey Cheremisinov Support the artists: CO.AG Music https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcavSftXHgxLBWwLDm_bNvA Myuu - http://www.thedarkpiano.com https://www.youtube.com/@Myuu Scott Buckley - https://www.scottbuckley.com.au https://www.youtube.com/c/ScottBuckley Sergey Cheremisinov - http://www.s-cheremisinov.com https://www.youtube.com/@SergeyCheremisinov Kevin MacLeod - https://incompetech.com https://www.youtube.com/user/kmmusic Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📝 Sources - Kerényi, K. (1959). Asklepios: Archetypal image of the physician's existence. Archetypal images of Greek religion, 3 - Downing, C. (1990). Only the wounded healer heals: the testimony of Greek mythology. Soundings, 551-573 - Daneault, S. The wounded healer: can this idea be of use to family physicians? Can Fam Physician. 2008 Sep;54(9):1218-9, 1223-5 - Henderson, R. (2019). The Wounded Healer: A Conversation with Thomas Moore, Murray Stein, and Russell Lockhart. Jung Journal, 13(2), 115-127 - Jung and the Archetype of the Wounded Healer: Free introductory Class – James Newell PhD https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UBnNGy8XCI&list=LL&index=6&t - Chiron: The Archetype of the Wounded Healer - Jessica DiRuzza, MFT https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fs8qdUFt-mk&t - Episode 176 - The Wounded Healer - This Jungian Life https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X95uBVQhT-s&t - Theurgy (A Brief Introduction) - Abbas the Alchemist https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXWfdFzjF5I&t - Introduction to the Sacred and Profane | Mircea Eliade | The Myth of the Eternal Return https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_tVf5kUH70 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⌛ 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 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases at no additional cost to you. Thanks for watching! #woundedhealer #carljung #asclepius