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Wounded Healers
  • Tribulations and Triumphs of Pioneering Psychotherapists
  • Keh-Ming Lin
  • Translated by Keh-Ming Lin
  • Published online:
    17 December 2020
    Print publication:
    03 December 2020
  • Freud was addicted to cocaine and nicotine, Jung was psychotic for several years, and Margaret Mead remained closeted throughout her lifetime. Yet, adversities notwithstanding, they all made monumental contributions that still shape our view on ourselves and the world. This book includes biographies of fifteen modern explorers of the mind who altered the course of history. All of them were wounded healers who made great discoveries while struggling with traumatic life crises and emotional problems in their personal lives. Full of unexpected twists and turns, their life stories alone are worthy of our attention. In linking their maladies with their creativity, showing the vulnerable and human side of these giants, this book makes the greats approachable and illuminates their scientific findings through narrating their life stories.

  • Conclusion

  • from Part II - From Sea to Shining Sea
  • Keh-Ming Lin, University of California, Los Angeles
  • Translated by Keh-Ming Lin, University of California, Los Angeles
  • Book:
    Wounded Healers
    Published online:
    17 December 2020
    Print publication:
    03 December 2020, pp 220-225

  • Summary

    This chapter traces the author’s intellectual and professional development, in both Taiwan and the USA, and describes how his lifelong search for a better understanding of the human mind sustained his fascination with the genesis of the thoughts of major schools of depth psychology, especially in the context of the life experiences of their founders. This search led to the realization of “wounded healer” as a unifying theme for the strivings and insights of these pioneers.

  • 21 - Reconstructing the self in the wake of loss: a dialogical contribution

  • from Part III - Domains of application
  • Edited by Hubert J. M. Hermans, Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen, Thorsten Gieser, Universität Koblenz-Landau, Germany
  • Book:
    Handbook of Dialogical Self Theory
    Published online:
    05 June 2012
    Print publication:
    24 November 2011, pp 374-389

  • Summary

    This chapter aims to show how dialogical self theory (DST) can inspire empirical research in creative writers. DST proposes that dialogue in and of itself is a dynamic process achieved by the exchange of ideas between the I-positions which represent different parts of the self, or various points of view present in the environment and culture. The chapter introduces innovative concepts and is an interdisciplinary enterprise in which one can connect psychology, psychobiography and the theory of literature. The participants are recognized Polish novelists who have agreed to reveal something important about their writing processes and about the relationships with their novelistic figures. Analysing the results of the spatial self-representation procedure and the interviews, the authors found three kinds of relationships between the author's I-position and the characters' I-positions: the author as an omniscient expert, the author as a spectator, and the author as a partner of the novelistic figure.