ON-DEMAND COURSE

The Archetype of the Wounded Healer

Jungian Psychology
TEACHER
James Hollis 
TOPIC
Archetypes
Format
4 class audio course
DURATION
2.5 hours

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Learn about the archetype of the Wounded Healer and how to work with it.

Learning about the Wounded Healer archetype is crucial for individuals in the helping profession. Carl Jung said that it is a professional’s own hurt that gives the measure of the power to heal. This course increases your awareness of this archetype. You will deepen your understanding of how your wounding and the adaptive behavioral patterns that you have developed affect the professional relationships you have with clients.

This audio program is being offered by the Jung Center of Houston and the Jung Platform. The original recording of these lectures took place at the Jung Center. The recordings have been remastered.


Course Description

The Wounded Healer is an active archetype that is relevant for people working in the helping professions. 

We are the Healer and the Wounded at once. When we do not realize that both aspects are part of us, we have a tendency to project our own woundedness onto the other. In addition, when we identify with the Healer, we are blind to the Healer in the client and we risk inflation. Obviously, this split of the healer and the wounded is unconscious. Therefore, it is important that we continuously tend to our own wounding when working in the healing profession and recognize the healer in the other. We will have to take back our projections. 

As healing professionals, we are vulnerable to the continuous stirring up of woundedness by the problems our clients bring to us. This vulnerability asks us that we have an ongoing relationship with our own wounding. 

Besides knowing about our own wounds, and re-collecting our projections, there is more. We also have to be aware of the dynamics of transference and countertransference and the several levels of exchange that are going on simultaneously between the professional and the client. James Hollis talks about the intricacies and complexities of these dynamics. 

Lastly, we want to know about the basic adaptive patterns that are programmed in each of us. These behavioral patterns set us up for certain kinds of ethical issues and dilemmas with our clients. So it’s not just about knowing the rules; it is also about knowing the dilemmas related to the behavioral patterns that are related to our woundings.

This program is ideal if you want to be able to

  • Explain what the archetype and profile of the wounded healer is and how it impacts your professional relationships with clients.
  • Understand why it is important to re-collect your projections of woundedness on your client.
  • Learn about the dynamics of transference and countertransference.
  • Learn about your adaptive behavioral patterns and how they (unconsciously) play out in daily life and influence the healing process.
  • Know about the ethical dilemmas related to your adaptive behavioral patterns.
  • Identify modes of adaptation in clients and yourself. 

Course overview

What you will receive

*You will receive a certificate of completion, but it’s not from an official accrediting body. Please check if it will be accepted by the organization you wish to use it with.
4 audio recordings
Companion Guide
Accurate Subtitles
Certificate of completion*
Available in English

ABout the teacher

james hollis 

James Hollis, Ph.D., is presently a licensed Jungian analyst in private practice in Washington, D.C. He is also a Core Faculty Member at Jung Platform since 2016, and one of the best Jungian teachers of our age.

Scholarships

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