Jodorowsky Alejandro - Manual Of Psychomagic The Practice Of Shamanic Psychotherapy - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: Traditional psychotherapy seeks to unburden the unconscious mind purely through talk and discussion. Psychomagic recognizes that it is difficult to reach the unconscious with rational thought. We should instead speak directly to the unconscious in its own language that of dreams poetry and symbolic acts. By interacting on this deeper level we can initiate quicker and more enduring change to resolve repressed childhood trauma express buried emotions and overcome deep - seated intimacy issues. Through the lens of psychomagic illness can be seen as the physical dream of the unconscious revealing unresolved issues some passed from generation to generation. In this workbook of psychomagical spells legendary filmmaker and creator of psychomagic Alejandro Jodorowsky provides several hundred successful psychomagic solutions for a wide range of psychological sexual emotional and physical problems from stuttering eczema and fear of failure to repressed rage hereditary illnesses and domineering parents. Each solution takes the same elements associated with a negative emotional charge and recasts them into a series of theatrical symbolic actions that enable one to pay the psychological debts hindering their lives. Jodorowsky explains how the surreal acts of psychomagic are intended to break apart the dysfunctional persona with whom the patient identifies in order to connect with a deeper more authentic self. As he says in the book " Health only finds itself in the authentic. There is no beauty without authenticity."
Title: Manual Of Psychomagic The Practice Of Shamanic Psychotherapy
Author(s): Jodorowsky Alejandro
Publisher: Inner Traditions Bear And Company
Barcode: 9781620551073
Pages: 256 Pages
Publication Date: 2/22/2015
Category: Complementary Therapies, Healing & Health