Stress and burnout are the results of an individual losing his or her way in life. Giving in to outside demands, keeping a stiff-upper-lip, pushing, competing – we all, though especially physicians, work under enormous pressures that by and by lead to ossification. Supervision may relieve those pressures by bolstering your imagination and fantasy. Images promote psychic energy-flow. Genuine interest, time, confidence, courage, and finally, employing symbols which enable our minds to overcome the dire straits we find ourselves in. Klaus Ratheiser assembles various cases in point and demonstrates how images and symbols are the key to recovery as they open a door to the unconscious.

About the author:

Dr Klaus Ratheiser was born in 1957. He studied Medicine in Vienna and Innsbruck. He has conducted research in Zurich, New Haven and New York but above all in Vienna where between 1995 and 2003 he was head of an intensive care unit. Afterward he focused on mediation, group dynamics, supervision, coaching and analytical psychology. Since 2006 he has dealt with health-improving consciousness (Salutogenese for Physicians), a yet to be established branch of Medical Ethics. He teaches at the University of Klagenfurt, at the University of Vienna and at the C.G. Jung Institute in Zurich. He works and lives as a consultant and writer in Vienna.