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...Another dimension of the childhood experience of therapists relates to what is known as the wounded healer theory. This idea proposes that the power of the healer (the priest or shaman in the primitive societies, the therapist in the modern society) derives from his or her inner experience of pain, loss or suffering. The presence of a "wound" in the healer gives him or her an excellen basis from which to understand and empathize with the wounds of clients. A danger is that the wound of the healer is exacerbated by the demands of those being helped, and the healer is sacrificed for their benefit. The wounded healer concept makes it possible to understand "the search for wholeness and integration", which characterizes the lives of many counsellors and therapists and which makes it possible to transform the pain of negative life experience into a resource for helping others.

John McLeod