Shamanic Dimensions of Psychotherapy: Healing t, Sels..

Taylor & Francis

Shamanic Dimensions of PsychotherapyHealing through the Symbolic Process\nAuthor(s): Robin van Lben Sels\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138095717, 978-1138095717\nSynopsis\nIn Shamanic Dimensions of Psychotherapy: Healing through the Symbolic Process, Robin van Lben Sels uniquely and honestly recounts her personal journey toward a shamanic understanding of psychotherapy. Exploring the disruptive breakthrough of visions and dreams that occurred during her analysis, personal life, and psychoanalytic training, van Lben Sels illustrates how the phenomenology of ancient shamanism is still alive and how it is a paradigm for the emergence and maturation of the psyche in people today.\n\nThis original book delves into van Lben Selss personal experience of the shaman, identifying such eruptions as a contemporary version of the archaic shamans initiatory call to vocation. The book is split into two parts. It begins by ou.