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The Importance of Embracing the Infinite
The therapist who is unable to overcome his own dog night of the soul will be less likely to help his patient with it. On France writes, when the training of a future therapist remains hung up in discussion of personal problems that person never turns out to be an effective therapist later on. In the process of healing, we seek to unite the fragmented part of ourselves so as to become whole. Wholeness only has meaning when we re-genyed our fragments of self. As Jung stated, only the wounded physician heals. The shaman is the great specialist in the human soul. He alone sees it, for he knows its form and its destiny.