Category: Psychotherapy

• The Sacred Mundane

  

  Unlike the Western worldview in which the sacred and profane are divided, the everyday becoming profane and distant from the scared, in the shaman’s world, they are interwoven

  Michael Watson PhD

  February 6, 2016

  Climate Change, Psychotherapy, Shamanism

  profane, psychotherapy, sacred, Shamanism, Winter

• Musings: Scars, Fragrances, and Memory

  

  Writing about being fitted for a new brace, and reading and responding to, the comments on that post, seems to have opened a doorway on to the immediacy of the past in the present, and to meaning making in the aftermath of intense experience, particularly illness. This morning I awoke early, before there was any…

  Michael Watson PhD

  January 31, 2016

  Disability, Psychotherapy

  disability, psychotherapy, Winter

• The Task of Grieving

  

  While working in the studio this morning, I chanced to pick up an old sketchbook, one from the late 70’s. Looking out from the studio, across the mid-winter landscape, I paused to enjoy the long shadows and brilliant, snow-reflected sunlight. The contrast between sunlight and shade is strong this time of year, and as today…

  Michael Watson PhD

  January 23, 2016

  Disability, Psychotherapy, Shamanism

  disability, grief, healing, psychotherapy, Shamanism

• Remembering the Healing Stories

  Lauret Savoy ends Traces with this: “Remembering is an alternative to extinction.” Remembering is a well-formed story. One of my early clinical teachers used to insist that neurosis was that which prevented the development of healing story, and that psychotherapy was the search for stories that worked. I’ve come to the conclusion that this is…

  Michael Watson PhD

  January 17, 2016

  Healing, native american, Psychotherapy, Shamanism, Stories

  healing, Jr., Martin Luther kIng, Native American, psychotherapy, Shamanism, stories