The Search to Be Real: Why Psychotherapists Become Therapists
This paper argues that one receives the calling to become a therapist to experience feeling real. Stated differently, therapists become therapists to heal themselves. Drawing on object relations theory, the author identifies five "wounds" therapists may consciously and unconsciously addres...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Springer Science + Business Media B. V.
[2001]
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Journal of religion and health
Year: 2001, Volume: 40, Issue: 3, Pages: 343-357 |
| Further subjects: | B
Psychotherapists
B Calling / Vocation B Christopher Bollas B D.W. Winnicott B Object Relations Theory |
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Volltext (Resolving-System) |
| Summary: | This paper argues that one receives the calling to become a therapist to experience feeling real. Stated differently, therapists become therapists to heal themselves. Drawing on object relations theory, the author identifies five "wounds" therapists may consciously and unconsciously address by entering a therapeutic profession. The wounds are located in the capacity to believe, the capacity to imagine, the capacity for concern, the capacity to be alone, and the capacity of object usage. Achieving these capacities provides the therapist with a sense of wholeness, health, and holiness. |
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| ISSN: | 1573-6571 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of religion and health
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1023/A:1012516915840 |