A Foot in Both Worlds: How Shamanic Healing And Energy Psychology Are Transforming Psychotherapy

This book is in three sections with the first being an abbreviated historical sweep of Western psychology. Beginning with Freud and Jung, this review includes attachment theory, person-centered humanistic approaches, CBT, behaviorism and the psychopharmacological model that has evolved to become the most utilized approach to treat mental and emotional issues. A brief discussion follows that describes how other countries incorporate psychotherapy into their respective cultures. Section two discusses core shamanic practices. These include the consequences of soul loss and the absorption of energetic psychotoxic intrusions that usually result from poor interpersonal boundaries. Other topics include how to use the classic shamanic journey to acquire a power animal and an anthropomorphic spirit teacher in both the lower world and the upper world. Brockman incorporates these ancient healing strategies into the psychotherapy session. There is a brief discussion describing the incorporation of behavioral kinesiology that uses muscle testing/energy testing. This provides great precision in selecting the use of energy psychology techniques to balance and release mental and emotional disturbances. The last section incorporates sixteen case studies that illustrate how shamanic healing and energy psychology techniques come together in Brockman’s Dynamic Energetic Healing model.

In this book, Brockman incorporates ancient indigenous healing practices that historically have been practiced for over 30,000 years with remarkable results. He explains how he integrates compressed-time shamanic journeys into the psychotherapy session without ritual, ceremony and drumming. His books contains sixteen case studies that explain how he is able to accomplish consistent healing results in far less time than conventional cognitive behavioral therapy, most commonly known as talk therapy. Together with behavioral kinesiological muscle testing, Brockman explains how he is able to be very precise in selecting the most appropriate energy-based interventions that along with compressed-time shamanic journeys create remarkably effective psychotherapeutic outcomes.