In the years since the publication of The Wounded Healer,
countertransference has become a central consideration in the analytic
process. David Sedgwick's work was ground-breaking in tackling this
difficult topic from a Jungian perspective and demonstrating how
countertransference can be used in positive ways.
Sedgwick's extended study of the process candidly presents the analyst's
struggles and shows how the analyst is, as Jung said, "as much in the
analysis as the patient." The book extends Jung's prescient work on
countertransference to create a dynamic view of the analyst-patient
interaction, stressing the importance of the analyst's own woundedness
and how this may be used in conjunction with the patient's own. Sedgwick
begins with a discussion of the need and justification for a Jungian
approach to countertransference, then reviews Jungian theories and
presents detailed illustrations of cases showing the complexity of
transference-countertransference processes in both the patient and the
analyst, and concludes with a model of countertransference processing.
This Classic Edition also includes a new introduction by the author.
It will be an important work for Jungian analysts, psychotherapists and
other clinicians and students interested in the struggles of the
therapeutic process.