House: The Wounded Healer on Television

Luke Hockley, PhD, is Professor of Media Analysis in the Research Centre for Media, Art and Design (RIMAD) at the University of Bedfordshire, UK. Luke is co-editor of the International Journal of Jungian Studies (IJJS) and Jung and Film II: The Return, due to be published in 2011 by Routledge. Luke is also a psychotherapist in private practice in London and Bedfordshire. Leslie Gardner, PhD, studied at the University of Essex Centre for Psychoanalytic Studies in the rhetoric of Jung, considering Vico as a precursor. She is on the Executive Committee of the International Association of Jungian Studies, a web-based organisation. She is presently running an international literary agency in London and is an occasional lecturer on writing at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK.

• Introduction. Part I: Diagnosing House. Hockley, Doctoring Individuation: Gregory House, Physician, Detective or Shaman? Izod, The Physician’s Melancholia. Hauke, Playing House: Convincing Them of What You Know Simply by Who You Are. Part II: Consulting House. Waddell, House’s Caduceus Crutch. Huskinson, Anatomy of Genius: Inspiration Through Banality and Boring People. Cotter, Limping the Way to Wholeness: Wounded Feeling and Feeling Wounded. Porterfield, Our Inner Puer and its Playmates, the Shadow and the Trickster. Part III: Dissecting House. Rowland, House Not Ho(l)mes. Gardner, Gestures of Excess: An Exploratory Analysis of Melodrama as a Collective Archetype. Beebe, Not as a Stranger. Miller, I Feel Like a Failure – In-House Feminism.