The figure of the Physician occupies a charged and ambivalent position throughout the depth-psychology corpus, functioning simultaneously as archetype, cultural ideal, and object of critique. Hillman’s sustained analysis in Suicide and the Soul establishes the central tension: the physician draws numinous power not from knowledge but from an archetypal role as ‘the first among fighters against dark death,’ yet this very role compels him to treat at all costs, rendering therapeutic passivity structurally impossible and his pathological bias a professional deformation. Guggenbuhl-Craig extends this critique through the lens of the healer-patient archetype, arguing that the modern physician’s repression of his own wound—his identification solely with the healthy, strong pole of the archetype—produces a ‘physician without wounds’ incapable of constellating the healing factor in patients. Jung’s treatment of Paracelsus in The Spirit in Man, Art, and Literature recovers an older, richer conception: the physician as alchemist, astrologer, and compassionate intermediary of nature, whose heart must be true for the physician within to be true. Yalom contributes a clinical-existential dimension, noting how patients project the role of ‘rescuer’ onto the physician, enabling a collusive magical inflation on both sides. Across these voices, the physician serves as a site where questions of power, archetype, wounded healing, medical secrecy, and the limits of the biomedical paradigm converge into enduring depth-psychological debate.