![]() ![]() "From the first time he met him, Rivers understood him better than anyone had." Their relationship models the "therapeutic alliance" that Jamison and other researchers consider the most important component of successful psychotherapy. "Sassoon would say that Rivers gave him a place to be known," Jamison says. ![]() Feeling a responsibility to the men in his command, Sassoon later returned to the battlefield, where he was wounded but, unlike fellow poet Wilfred Owen, survived the war. Rivers treated the poet when he was consigned to a mental hospital for the anti-war views he developed in the trenches. The title is lifted from a poem by World War I veteran Siegfried Sassoon, who had a productive and mutually admiring relationship with the anthropologist, psychologist, physician, and British Army captain W.H.R. The book represents "an archipelago of thoughts, experiences and images," Jamison writes in its pages. Instead, Jamison draws on an idiosyncratic catalog of personal obsessions to illuminate the broader topic of psychological healing and healers. Her latest work, Fires in the Dark: Healing the Unquiet Mind (Knopf, 2023), is not a conventional history of psychotherapy. Image credit: Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions ![]()
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