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Power in the Helping Professions
In this concise book, the widely respected Jungian analyst Adolf Guggenbühl-Craig teaches us how to be aware of the subtle abuses of authority that can occur during therapy and counseling.
128 pages, Paperback
Published December 21, 2020
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January 15, 2023
This book was recommended as part of my end-of-life doula training at the University of Vermont in winter 2022. A few favorite passages:
"Like other people, we analysts often have a blind spot in regard to our shadow. We see it neither in our dreams nor in our actions. Frequently even our friends cannot see our shadow for a time, becoming as blind as we are ourselves, resulting in something resembling a folie a deux. In such cases enemies can be useful; we should study their statements with care."
"But most interested observers of interpersonal relations, whether psychotherapists or not, are repeatedly struck by how much more transpires and is exchanged b/n two people than is ever expressed in word or deed."
"Mythology tries to provide answers to psychological, philosophical, and religious questions for which we cannot find rational solutions. The inexplicable, the mysterious, is expressed in mythological symbols."
"...the dreams must be interpreted by the dreamer himself. Yet, there is no system, no objective technique, for understanding the messages of dreams. Dream interpretation is a creative, almost an artistic activity. In the final analysis, the interpretation of a dream depends on the interpreter."
" ...Jung always clearly emphasized that the analytical process must be a mutual one, with analyst and patient each having an effect upon the other."
"Like other people, we analysts often have a blind spot in regard to our shadow. We see it neither in our dreams nor in our actions. Frequently even our friends cannot see our shadow for a time, becoming as blind as we are ourselves, resulting in something resembling a folie a deux. In such cases enemies can be useful; we should study their statements with care."
"But most interested observers of interpersonal relations, whether psychotherapists or not, are repeatedly struck by how much more transpires and is exchanged b/n two people than is ever expressed in word or deed."
"Mythology tries to provide answers to psychological, philosophical, and religious questions for which we cannot find rational solutions. The inexplicable, the mysterious, is expressed in mythological symbols."
"...the dreams must be interpreted by the dreamer himself. Yet, there is no system, no objective technique, for understanding the messages of dreams. Dream interpretation is a creative, almost an artistic activity. In the final analysis, the interpretation of a dream depends on the interpreter."
" ...Jung always clearly emphasized that the analytical process must be a mutual one, with analyst and patient each having an effect upon the other."
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