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Trauma and the role of the wounded healer

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 August 2021

A. Hankir ,
R. Zaman  and
F. Carrick
A. Hankir*
Affiliation:
Institute Of Psychiatry, Psychology And Neuroscience, King’s College London, London, United Kingdom
R. Zaman
Affiliation:
Psychiatry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
F. Carrick
Affiliation:
Neurology, University of Central Florida, Orlando, United States of America
*
*Corresponding Author.

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Carl Jung used the term, ‘The Wounded Healer’ as an archetypal dynamic to describe a phenomenon which may take place in the relationship between analyst and analysand. Jung discovered the Wounded Healer archetype in relation to himself. For Jung, ‘It is our own hurt that gives the measure of our power to heal‘. Indeed, recurrent themes in the autobiographical narratives of Wounded Healers is that their experiences living with trauma inspired them to become more empathetic, driven and insightful. Many report that debilitating though the symptoms of mental illness are, the stigma is far worse. In this paper we describe the inception of an innovative anti-stigma programme, ‘The Wounded Healer’ that blends the power of storytelling and the performing arts with psychiatry and how The Wounded Healer helps to heal the wounds that were afflicted by the trauma of stigma.

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European Psychiatry , Volume 64 , Special Issue S1: Abstracts of the 29th European Congress of Psychiatry , April 2021 , pp. S67
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