The Wounded Healer

ABSTRACT

The idea and archetype of the Wounded Healer is informative for depth psychotherapy and Jungian analysis. In this enterview, three seasoned Jungian analysts share what it has meant to them in their work and life.

KEY WORDS:

• healing
• introversion, C. G. Jung
• wounds
• Wounded Healer

Notes

References to The Collected Works of C. G. Jung are cited in the text as CW, volume number, and paragraph number. The Collected Works are published in English by Routledge (UK) and Princeton University Press (USA).

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Notes on contributors

Robert Henderson

RUSSELL LOCKHART obtained his doctoral degree in human psychophysiology in 1965 from the University of Southern California. He entered analytical training in 1969 and graduated from the C. G. Jung Institute of Los Angeles in 1975. He served as director of analyst training from 1979 to 1982 and, since 1974, has been in private practice. He has served on the faculties at the University of California, Santa Barbara; University of California, Berkeley; and University of California, Los Angeles. He was director of the Psychophysiological Research Laboratory at Camarillo State Hospital in conjunction with the Neuropsychiatric Institute of the School of Medicine at UCLA. Dr. Lockhart is the author of The Final Interlude: Advancing Age and Life’s End (with Lee Roloff, 2016), Dreams, Bones & the Future: A Dialogue (with Paco Mitchell, 2015), Words as Eggs: Psyche in Language and Clinic (Spring, 1983; reprinted 2012); Psyche Speaks: A Jungian Approach to Self (Chiron, 1987; reprinted 2014), and Secrets of the Undergroundtrader (with Jea Yu) (McGraw-Hill, 2003). His works in progress are Gleanings from the Dreamfield; Dreams, Bones & the Future: Queries and Speculations (with Paco Mitchell, 2019); Fex & Coo: A Novel (with Paco Mitchell); Dreams, Bones & the Future: Endings (with Paco Mitchell); and Dreams: The Final Heresy: A Novel. Dr. Lockhart was born and raised in Los Angeles. He and his wife Frankie have been married for fifty-eight years and have four children and three grandchildren. They live in Everett, Washington.

THOMAS MOORE was born in Detroit. At age thirteen, he entered the Servite religious order of the Catholic Church in preparation for a life of teaching and ministry. He left the order before being ordained. He received his PhD in religion from Syracuse University. His many publications include The Care of the Soul, The Soul’s Religion, The Soul of Sex, Dark Eros, Rituals of the Imagination, The Planet’s Within, A Blue Fire, Meditations, Soulmates, The Re-enchantment of Everyday Life, The Education of the Heart, The Book of Job, Original Self, Dark Nights of the Soul, Ageless Soul, and A Life at Work. He and his wife, Hari Kirin, live in New Hampshire. They have two grown children, Ajeet Kaur and Abe.

MURRAY STEIN is a graduate of Yale University (BA 1965), Yale Divinity School (MDiv 1969), and the University of Chicago (PhD 1985). He received his Diploma in Analytical Psychology from the C. G. Jung Institute in Zürich in 1973. He had a private practice in Wilmette, Illinois, from 1980 to 2003, and was a training analyst with the C. G. Jung Institute of Chicago. Since 2003, he has lived in Switzerland and is a training and supervising analyst with the International School of Analytical Psychology/Zürich. He currently has a private practice in Zürich. He is a founding member of the Inter-Regional Society of Jungian Analysts and the Chicago Society of Jungian Analysts, and he was the first president of the Chicago Society of Jungian Analysts (1980–1985). He is a former president of the International Association for Analytical Psychology (2001–2004) and a former president of ISAP Zürich (2008–2012). He is the author of In MidLife, Jung’s Treatment of Christianity, Transformation: Emergence of the Self, Jung’s Map of the Soul, Minding the Self, The Bible as Dream, and other books, and he is the editor of Jungian Psychoanalysis. Murray and his wife, Jan, have three children, Hal, Sarah, and Christopher; and four grandchildren.

ROBERT S. HENDERSON is a poet, Jungian psychotherapist, and ordained Protestant minister in Glastonbury, Connecticut. He and his wife, Janis, a psychotherapist, are the authors of the three-volume book, Living with Jung: “Enterviews” with Jungian Analysts. Many of their enterviews have been published in Quadrant, Spring Journal, Psychological Perspectives, Jung Journal: Culture & Psyche, and Harvest. Correspondence: 244 Wood Pond Road, Glastonbury, CT 06033. Email: [email protected].