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This recent edition of the Chiron Clinical Series brings together an extraordinarily rich and stimulating collection of essays which explore, from a variety of overlapping perspectives, the theme of archetypal processes in psychotherapy. The nine essays fall broadly into two groups—those which are concerned with model building and comparative theory (see Whitmont, Dieckmann, Stewart, Ryce Menuhin, Klaif) and those which focus more specifically on particular archetypal processes such as regression (Sullivan) and reconstruction (Stein) and the ways in which archetypal processes are experienced and expressed individually (Gordon). The last essay, ‘Chiron's wound’, by Whan, focuses on the archetypal processes active between two people engaged in therapy, breaking down the distinction between the cured and the sick through the mutually binding image of Chiron, the wounded healer.
The essays as a whole not only raise the question of what constitutes an archetypal process but also highlight the relation between process and the image or images constellated or derived from this ‘process. Whitmont's introductory essay.