who cares for the mental health carer?Dunne (2015) looks into Carl Jung’s wounded healer concept, in which the analyst must acknowledge pain from patients so the analyst can heal themself from personal pain experienced.
To do this, Jung faced a decision in his work: does he see himself as part of the drama or cloak himself in his own authority (Dunne, 2015, p.
119)?But why must we even ask these questions in the first place? To answer this, we explore why self-care is exceptionally important to those working in the mental health field.Before continuing, we thought you might like to download our three Self-Compassion Exercises for free.
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