Celebrating the Wounded Healer Psychotherapist

ISBN 10: 1138926728 / ISBN 13: 9781138926721

Published by Routledge, 2016

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pp. 226.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Celebrating the Wounded Healer Psychotherapist
• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication Date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1138926728
• ISBN 13: 9781138926721
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Why would someone decide to become a psychotherapist? It is well-known within the field that psychoanalysts and psychotherapists are often drawn to their future professions as a result of early traumatic experiences and being helped by their own psychoanalytic treatment. While dedicating their lives to relieving emotional suffering without being judgmental, they fear compromising their reputations if they publicly acknowledge such suffering in themselves. This phenomenon is nearly universal among those in the helping professions, yet there are few books dedicated to the issue.

In this innovative book, Farber and a distinguished range of contributors examine how the role of the ‘wounded healer’ was instrumental in the formulation of psychoanalysis, and how using their own woundedness can help clinicians work more effectively with their patients, and advance theory in a more informed manner.

Celebrating the Wounded Healer Psychotherapist will be of interest to psychoanalysts and psychoanalytic psychotherapists, graduate students in clinical disciplines including psychology, social work, ministry/chaplaincy and nursing, as well as the general public.

About the Author

Sharon Klayman Farber, Ph.D., is a psychotherapist and psychoanalyst, clinical social worker, author, teacher, and independent scholar. She maintains a private practice in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York, treating children, adolescents, and adults.