Nicola Diamond and I unfold the ideas related to the wounded healer concept, to approach the need of the carer’s healing to be able to care for others safely.
We reflect about how to go about on that personal journey the frontline carer can go through to develop resilience and understanding by facing the adversity of the past to learn more about themselves and find personal strengths beyond the adversities from the past.
Dr Nicola Diamond, PhD, BPC reg, Member of BPF. in clinical private practice, including on line. Lecturer at the Tavistock Clinic. Former Senior Lecturer, University of East London, prior to that Director of PhD studies, Regents College. Worked as a clinician for many years at the Helen Bamber Foundation (with survivors of trafficking and torture). Also as a psychotherapist for the former, Women Therapy Centre, London. Published widely on psychoanalysis and the body, trauma and attachment. Publications: – books, Attachment and Intersubjectivity (co-author with Mario Marrone) and Between Skins: The Body in Psychoanalysis and Contemporary Perspectives. Articles include ‘On Bowlbys Legacy’, ‘Sexual Abuse: The Bodily Aftermath, Attachment and the Body’, ‘When Thought is not Enough’,’Between Touches’, ‘ Between the Body and Social Trauma: Working with the Aftermath of Trauma’, ‘ The Body and Film: Estranged Body States- A Case of das Unheimlich’, ‘Some Vicissitudes of Feminine Sexuality, including Excessive Sexuality’, ‘ Between Bodies : Working in the Liminal Zone with Traumatised Clients’ (with Paola Valerio), ‘A Case of Missing Identity: Working with Disassociation and ‘Multiple Selves’ in the Countertransference’ ( with Mario Marrone), ‘ Cuerpo y Languaje en la Crianza. Desbloquear y Transformer al Nino Interior con Talleres Interfamiliares y de Danza con Desarrollo Vital’ (con Patricia Martello) . I have a specific interest in states of Unheimlich, as it relates to bodily being. Being not at home ‘in the place of home’, I have looked at this in film as it relates to embodied states of disorientation and filmic communication, in bodily symptoms in cases of trauma in clinical work, the relevance of insecurity in attachment to these experiences and I have an interest in states of unheimlich in physical illness. and other bodily changes. I have an interest also in Podcasts and as well as my private practice do lectures for University, the International Attachment Network and psychotherapy organisations, plus examining PhDs