What Are the Factors That Heal?

Written in the tradition of C.G. Jung and starting out from the insight that it is not we therapists, but the soul itself that heals psychological disorders, this book is not a manual offering advice to therapists about what to do in order to bring healing about. It rather offers a theoretical reflection about how healing is to be understood in a truly psychological (in contrast to medical) sense and it explores a range of factors that-generally part of the therapistʼs work in the consulting room-are in fact conducive to a possible healing. These factors include such aspects as the personality of the therapist, the abstract position of "therapist" in the objective institution of psychotherapy, the chosen setting, the role of the therapistʼs psychological theory, the extent to which one opens oneself to "the other", the work on consciousnessʼs ideas, illusions, images, and dreams. In each case, an attempt is made to understand more deeply how specifically and why they contribute to healing. But since the healing effect is not in our hands, due attention is also paid to the limits of therapeutic work.

Author: Wolfgang Giegerich
Publisher: Dusk Owl Books
Published: 05/12/2020
Pages: 144
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.44lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.31d
ISBN13: 9781999226626
ISBN10: 1999226623
BISAC Categories:
- Psychology | Clinical Psychology

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