2nd Edition

The Wounded Healer Countertransference from a Jungian Perspective

By David Sedgwick Copyright 2017
172 Pages
by Routledge

172 Pages
by Routledge

172 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more

Introduction to the Classic Edition. Introduction. Jungian Approaches to Countertransference: A Review. Case Illustrations. Conclusions. Notes. References. Index.

Biography

David Sedgwick is a Jungian analyst and clinical psychologist in private practice in Charlottesville, Virginia. His other published books include Jung and Searles: A comparative study (Routledge, 1993) and Introduction to Jungian Psychotherapy: The therapeutic relationship (Routledge, 2001).

The Wounded Healer really is a ‘classic’! The descriptions in depth of what the patient means to the analyst are as fresh, dynamic, moving and instructive now as they were twenty five years ago. Sedgwick, as much as anyone, is responsible for making sure that Jungian analysis is recognised as a pioneering strand in the emergence of psychotherapy as a relational enterprise. The book will be of interest to all clinicians, whether Jungian or not.’ - Professor Andrew Samuels, co-editor of Relational Psychotherapy, Psychoanalysis and Counselling: Appraisals and Reappraisals (Routledge, 2014).