Spiritual Threads in Psychotherapeutic Work

How Shamanism Can Offer New Therapeutic Perspectives While Respecting Older Traditions

In this video presentation, Dr Angela Cotter starts with Jung’s discussion of shamanism and why he saw this focus as important for our time. She will then move on to her own training in Celtic and other forms of shamanism, where the former is one of the approaches in the UK nearest to an indigenous tradition and speaks to her own heritage. Her paper traces her personal journey through working with dream-like trance states of consciousness with specific clients to a more integrated approach within her clinical practice. Drawing on these insights, Dr Cotter focuses on how other psychotherapists can use shamanic approaches, and the training that is needed to do this.