Carl G Jung
Source: The Wisdom of Carl Jung
A person entrusted with the care of souls ought to have
but chiefly of experience.
The greatest mistake an analyst can make is to assume that
his patient has a psychology similar to his own.
We cannot demand of our patients a faith which
they do reject because they do not understand it,
or which does not suit them
even though we may hold it ourselves.
First of all, one has to accept and to take seriously into account
the existence of the shadow.
Anybody whose calling it is to guide souls
should have his own soul guided first,
so that he knows what it means to deal with the human soul.
It is of course,
essential for the psychotherapist to have
a fair knowledge of himself,
for anyone who does not understand himself
cannot understand others and
can never be psychotherapeutically effective unless
he has first treated himself with the same medicine.
Knowing your own darkness is the best method for
dealing with the darkness of the other people.
For psychotherapy to be effective,
a close rapport is needed,
so close that the doctor cannot shut his eyes
to the heights and depths of human suffering.
When I am treating a man,
I must be exceedingly careful not to knock
him down with my views or my personality,
because he has to fight his lonely fight through life and
he must be able to trust in his very incomplete armor and
in his own perhaps very imperfect aim.
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