Her emphasis on the physical/somatic attributes of the shaman also link with somatic therapies such as authentic movement, dance therapy, art therapy, and the somatic psychotherapies of Somatic Experiencing, Hakomi, and Somatic Transformation. As I read her book, I was repeatedly aware of links between her shamanic attributes and the work of current neuroscientists such as Schore, Damasio, and Porges as well as infant researchers such as Stern, Trevarthan, and Reddy. To pay attention to these attributes is to work mostly at the level of what is non-conscious yet experienced and manifested bodily it is to be present to the language of sensations and is foundational to moving towards ego consciousness and a growing capacity to name one’s experience – what the author calls a yoga of consciousness. In this poetic and evocative book, van Löben Sels provides us with anthropological, clinical, and personal descriptions that illustrate, as well as evoke, aspects of the shaman archetype and its operation in the therapeutic situation – especially in the form of the seven shamanic attributes she explores. Shamanic Dimensions is an important and satisfying contribution to our understanding of shamanistic experience, depth psychology, and the unfolding of life.’ – Mark Winborn, PhD, NCPsyA, Jungian psychoanalyst, psychologist, and author of Interpretation in Jungian Analysis: Art and Technique ‘Robin van Löben Sels has the rare gift of being able to capture with words our primary, felt experiences that often have an ineffable quality and, as such, elude verbal description. Rather than simply explaining shamanism, van Löben Sels utilizes the patterns found in shamanism as a means of amplifying important elements of life and the depth of the therapeutic encounter. In addition to having significant implications for the practicing psychotherapist, her careful and astute articulation of “shamanic attributes” might well serve as a template for the practice of conscious living. Throughout the volume, van Löben Sels reveals how the “shamanic complex” functions to facilitate healing in the space created between therapist and patient. However, this volume is not a dry, academic treatise on shamanism. ‘In Shamanic Dimensions of Psychotherapy, Robin van Löben Sels artfully weaves together personal narrative and clinical experience, along with threads from art, poetry, literature, analytical psychology, and psychoanalytic theory, to articulate the shamanic elements underpinning the psychotherapy experience.
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