Article Title：The search to be real: Why psychotherapists become therapists
Abstract：
This paper argues that one receives the calling to become a therapist to experience feeling real. Stated differently, therapists become therapists to heal themselves. Drawing on object relations theory, the author identifies five wounds therapists may consciously and unconsciously address by entering a therapeutic profession. The wounds are located in the capacity to believe, the capacity to imagine, the capacity for concern, the capacity to be alone, and the capacity of object usage. Achieving these capacities provides the therapist with a sense of wholeness, health, and holiness.
Keywords: DW Winnicott; Christopher Bollas; object relations theory; psychotherapists; vocation/calling
DOI: 10.1023/A:1012516915840
Source：JOURNAL OF RELIGION & HEALTH
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