Ms. Withers was a wounded healer - a nurse with bipolar disorder - who found salvation by dressing naked wheels.

The wounded healer is an archetype for a shamanic trail and journey.

This is the uncanny mark of the wounded healer.

Mostly, though, he talked at night to the other campers, each one being what the theologian Henri Nouwen famously called a "wounded healer."

They also asked the clergy to reach out to those still in prison, portraying themselves as "wounded healers" who could become active churchgoers with valuable insights to offer inner-city congregations.

Wounded Healers Many experts see in the data a sign of the Jungian notion of "wounded healers," who are adept at treating emotional wounds because they too have suffered them.

One of the PBS segments devoted to so-called wounded healers especially interested her, she said.

One of the deeper, underlying archetypal patterns which is being constellated in the human psyche that is playing itself out collectively on the world stage is the archetype of the "wounded healer."

The archetype of the wounded healer reveals to us that it is only by being willing to face, consciously experience and go through our wound do we receive its blessing.

By contrast, Apollo Medicus subverted the folklore of the wounded healer, in so far as it was not his own suffering which empowered him to heal.