Intimate Dialogues: The Therapist and the Patient:

Mythology manages to accommodate and corresponds to several archetypes that are very typical to this day. And there is a legend that explains the emergence of Chiron, the holiday healer, one of the archetypes that, in my view, represents the movement of all therapists who welcome and treat their “patients”.

“Legend has it that Cronos found himself strongly attracted to the beautiful Filira and, in order to have her, he had to transform himself into a horse to escape the distrust of his wife, the goddess Rhea. From the union of this forbidden love a boy was born, half man, half horse.

Dissatisfied with having generated a Centaur, the mother rejected her son, asking the gods to transform her into a tree. The gods, touched by her request, chose to transform her into a linden, a sacred tree with magical powers that protected warriors.

When Kronos found out, worried about the woodcutters, he decided to protect her by making her exhale forever a pleasant and intoxicating perfume during spring.

Centaurs used to be violent, so Kronos, who loved his son, decided to change that fate by giving him his time god virtues.

Chiron inherited his father's wisdom, knowledge of magic, astronomy and the gift of predicting the future. In addition, he was knowledgeable in the arts and music. The boy was given to the god Apollo and the goddess Artemis to be educated and, for his wisdom, virtues and great spirituality, he was elected king of the centaurs, receiving the mission of educating young people to respect divine laws.

Once, when his friend Hercules killed the Lernaean Hydra monster with poisoned heads, he accidentally wounded him in the thigh with one of the monster's blood-saturated arrows. Chiron, although immortal, could not heal himself, being condemned to live in suffering.

Wounded and with a sensitive spot that hurt when touched, he recognized that he had a VULNERABILITY. Chiron's injuries transformed him into the WOUNDED HEALER, the one who, through his own pain, is able to understand the pain of others.”

Gilberto Godoy

Chiron was rejected by his mother, soon transformed into what he was not, resumes his form and is hit by a bending he could never heal from. His pains transformed him into a wise man, whose conscience was allied to his animal part, which became the most sensitive part of him. All centaurs were violent, but Chiron received the wisdom of the times from his father, turning his gifts into knowledge.

Chiron represents the wounded part of each one of us and is the archetype that represents the therapists, whose through their own pain, deficiencies, weaknesses, limitations and/or problem becomes empathetic and benevolent to the pain of those around them, as they understand each pain with compassion and welcome each one with love.

The term Wounded Healer comes from the psychologist Carl Jung, in the sense that the therapist is compelled to treat his patients because he himself is bleeding and wounded by the fragility of his own pain.

Much research has shown that most counselors, therapists, and psychotherapists have experienced one or more experiences of inner wounds that led to their career choice, even if unconsciously.

In Tantra we call our patients interactants. And do you know why? Because in Tantra there is always an interaction, a complex network of energy exchange that goes beyond dialogue or even the sharing of stories and milestones of a life to be reviewed. She goes between the lines of subtle energy, she shares an exchange from start to finish, from conversation to touches with direct intervention for the performance of her vibration field.

In this exchange of the holiday healer with the interactor, it is intended, or at least it is hoped, that like Chiron, the therapist is aware of his own personal wounds and that they can be activated in certain situations. Especially ones that are very similar to your own.

The therapist, conscious or not of his own pain, transmits this awareness to his interactor, causing an unconscious relationship between therapist and interactant during the sessions and in the process itself, where the treated wounds affect the therapist's own wounds.

Just like Chiron, every counselor that permeates this healing space knows that, as Rumi said, that it is through your wound that light enters, especially Tantric therapists, who deal with consciousness through its most primitive and instinctive part which is the body, being able to reach a divine consciousness through the improvement of the psyche construction filters, which are your own senses.