Time and Trauma in Analytical Psychology and Psychotherapy: The Wisdom of Andean Shamanism

Jungian analyst and psychologist Deborah Bryon offers Andean shamanic wisdom as it dovetails with concepts from Depth psychology and contemporary relational psychoanalysis. After being adopted and inducted by Peruvian paqos, she seamlessly combines her personal experience with theoretical concepts to highlight practices of connection and compassion. Her personal descent to deep layers of unconscious phenomena is shown to bring an enhanced awareness of reality with profound healing effects, providing a wide-ranging perspective on experiences central to contemporary depth psychology. Deborah utilizes the conceptual framework of quantum theory to reveal underlying links between mystical and clinical experience. This presentation will weave together interpersonal and Jungian analytic perspectives, informed by indigenous Andean shamanism, and contemporary scientific understanding of time in an exploration of a more expansive, vision of the world. It will provide different perspectives on experiences central to contemporary depth psychology – i.e., the subjective experience of time and trauma.