Name: psychomagic,the transformative power of shamanic psychotherapy
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Author: Jodorowsky, Alejandro
ISBN: 9781594773365

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psychomagic,the transformative power of shamanic psychotherapy

Type

Physical Book

Author

Alejandro Jodorowsky

Publisher

Inner Traditions

Language

English

Pages

336

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

22.6 x 15.2 x 2.0 cm

Weight

0.45 kg.

ISBN

9781594773365

ISBN13

9781594773365

Synopsis "psychomagic,the transformative power of shamanic psychotherapy"

A healing path using the power of dreams, theater, poetry, and shamanism - Shows how psychological realizations can cause true transformation when manifested by concrete poetic acts - Includes many examples of the surreal but successful actions Jodorowsky has prescribed to those seeking his help While living in Mexico, Alejandro Jodorowsky became familiar with the colorful and effective cures provided by folk healers. He realized that it is easier for the unconscious to understand the language of dreams than that of rationality. Illness can even be seen as a physical dream that reveals unresolved emotional and psychological problems. Psychomagic presents the shamanic and genealogical principles Jodorowsky discovered to create a healing therapy that could use the powers of dreams, art, and theater to empower individuals to heal wounds that in some cases had traveled through generations. The concrete and often surreal poetic actions Jodorowsky employs are part of an elaborate strategy intended to break apart the dysfunctional persona with whom the patient identifies in order to connect with a deeper self. That is when true transformation can manifest. For a young man who complained that he lived only in his head and was unable to grab hold of reality and advance toward the financial autonomy he desired, Jodorowsky gave the prescription to paste two gold coins to the soles of his shoes so that all day he would be walking on gold. A judge whose vanity was ruling his every move was given the task of dressing like a tramp and begging outside one of the fashionable restaurants he loved to frequent while pulling glass doll eyes out of his pockets. The lesson for him was that if a tramp can fill his pockets with eyeballs, then they must be of no value, and thus the eyes of others should have no bearing on who you are and what you do. Taking his patients directly at their words, Jodorowsky takes the same elements associated with a negative emotional charge and recasts them in an action that will make them positive and enable them to pay the psychological debts hindering their lives.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

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Artist, filmmaker, and Chilean writer, naturalized French, of Jewish-Ukrainian descent. Since 1948, he has worked as a novelist, screenwriter, playwright, essayist, film and theater director, actor, film editor, comic book writer, musician, composer, philosopher, puppeteer, mime, psychologist, cartoonist, painter, sculptor, and comic book author. He has published 41 original books between 1963 and 2022. He is the author of more than two hundred comics between 1965 and 2022. He has directed ten films between 1957 and 2022.

He is mostly known for his prolific contribution to avant-garde cinema, especially for El topo (1970) and La montaña sagrada (1973)

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