1st Edition

A Psychoanalytic Study of the Wounded Healer Life Stories, Myth and Reality

By Rhona M. Fear Copyright 2023
144 Pages
by Routledge

144 Pages
by Routledge

144 Pages
by Routledge

A Psychoanalytic Study of the Wounded Healer uses qualitative research to examine the popular myth that therapists are ‘wounded healers’. Rhona M. Fear presents the life stories of seven well-known psychoanalysts and psychotherapists, including Sigmund Freud, John Bowlby and Patrick Casement. Fear uses grounded theory to analyse her research and categorise her results, focusing closely on... Read more

Introduction

1: The Myth of the Wounded Healer

2: The Research Methodology

3: The Narrative Tone of Stories: Attachment Schemas and World View

4: The Life of Patrick Casement

5: The Life of Neville Symington

6: The Life of Nina Coltart

7: The Life of Sigmund Freud

8: The Life of Viktor Frankl

9: The Life of Carl Jung

10: The Life of John Bowlby

11: Analysis of Themes in the Research

12: Reflexivity

13: Discussion

References

Biography

Rhona M. Fear is a psychoanalytic psychotherapist who has spent more than thirty years in private practice in Worcestershire, UK. Following her attainment of a master’s degree in counselling and psychotherapy, she proceeded to train in contemporary psychoanalytic theory with the West Midlands Institute of Psychotherapy. She is the author of several books, including Attachment Theory: Working Towards Learned Security (Routledge).