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Therapies, the Wild Mind and more

Where Therapeutic Shamanism meets the wider world: other therapies, the Wild Mind, and how humans have lived. Each answer explains the outside work in its own terms, shows where it supports Therapeutic Shamanism, and says where shamanism sees further. Answers on how humans have lived are on their way.

Shamanism and the therapies

Person-centred therapy

What can person-centred therapy offer shamanic work?

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What can shamanism offer person-centred therapy?

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Jung and depth psychology

What can Jung's psychology offer shamanic work?

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What can shamanism offer Jungian work?

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Are Power Animals and Guides just archetypes?

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What is the wounded healer?

Parts of the self

Where does the idea of parts of the self come from?

What can Internal Family Systems (IFS) offer shamanic work?

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What can shamanism offer IFS work?

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What can Voice Dialogue offer shamanic work?

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What can shamanism offer Voice Dialogue?

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Process Work

What can Process Work offer shamanic work?

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What can shamanism offer Process Work?

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The body

What can shamanism offer Focusing?

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What can Hakomi offer shamanic work?

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What can shamanism offer Hakomi?

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What can shamanism offer Reichian work?

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What can somatic and body-centred therapies offer shamanic work?

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What can shamanism offer somatic and body-centred therapy?

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Trauma

What is trauma, and how does Therapeutic Shamanism understand it?

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What can trauma therapy offer shamanic work?

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What can shamanism offer trauma therapy?

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What is collective trauma?

What can shamanism offer IEMT?

What can shamanism offer EMDR?

What can IEMT offer shamanic work?

What can EMDR offer shamanic work?

What are PTSD and complex PTSD, and can shamanic work help?

Meaning

What can Viktor Frankl's logotherapy offer shamanic work?

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What can shamanism offer logotherapy and the search for meaning?

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Family and ancestors

What can Family Constellations offer shamanic work?

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What can shamanism offer Family Constellations work?

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Gestalt and Transactional Analysis

What can Transactional Analysis offer shamanic work?

What can shamanism offer Transactional Analysis?

What can shamanism offer Gestalt work?

What can Gestalt offer shamanic work?

What are Parent, Adult and Child, and how do they compare with the parts of the self?

Art therapy and ecotherapy

What can shamanism offer ecotherapy and ecopsychology?

What can shamanism offer art therapy?

What can ecotherapy and ecopsychology offer shamanic work?

What can art therapy offer shamanic work?

Compassion-focused therapy

What can shamanism offer compassion-focused therapy?

What can compassion-focused therapy offer shamanic work?

The Wild Mind

Neurodiversity and the Wild Mind

What is neurodiversity, and how does Therapeutic Shamanism see it?

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What are the Wild Mind and the Domesticated Mind?

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What does domestication do to us?

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Is "neurotypical" the same as the Domesticated Mind?

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Were traditional shamans neurodivergent?

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Are humans a self-domesticated species?

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Were traditional shamans mentally ill?

How can dyslexic and dyspraxic people approach shamanic work?

Autism, ADHD and masking

What can shamanism offer autistic people?

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What can shamanism offer people with ADHD?

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What is masking, and how is it linked to domestication?

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Gifts and sensitivities

What is giftedness, and why can it feel like a burden?

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What is a highly sensitive person, and why are so many drawn to shamanic work?

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What is an otrovert?

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Is shamanic work suited to introverts?

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Intuition

What is intuition, and can we trust it?

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Kinds of intelligence

What are the different kinds of intelligence, and how has the list grown?

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What is emotional intelligence?

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Is the living world intelligent?

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Do animals think and feel?

Does it matter whether an animal is sentient?

What is spiritual intelligence?

What is naturalist intelligence?

What is musical intelligence, and why do rhythm and song matter in shamanic work?

What is existential intelligence?

What is embodied (bodily) intelligence?

What is artistic or creative intelligence?

What are interpersonal and intrapersonal intelligence?

Is IQ a good measure of intelligence?

Language and metaphor

What is a metaphor, and how does it shape the way we see the world?