What is it about?
The paper is structured around two examples of clinical work in exploratory psychotherapy where the image and personification of the figure of the witch was used as a focal point facilitating therapeutic change in one patient, and was indicative of defense and stasis in the psychology of another.
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Why is it important?
The paper indicates the value of mythological imagery as a clinical guide in analytic psychotherapy
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Part of my intention in writing this paper was to establish better in my thinking about my clinical practice a place for subjective archetypal imagery as a channel for the dynamic unconscious
Nicholas Humphreys
South Trent
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This page is a summary of: The Witch as a Psychological Figure, British Journal of Psychotherapy, September 2017, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1111/bjp.12304.
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