Shamans, Healers, and Medicine Men

Shamans, Healers, and Medicine Men explores the primal healing methods of shamans all over the world. The author shows that for these extraordinary men and women, healing is not merely the alleviation of symptoms but entails a transformation of one's relationship to life.Holger Kalweit is a German ethnologist and psychologist who has studied shamanism in Hawaii, the American Southwest, Mexico, and Tibet. He is the author of several books in German as well as the founder of two psychotherapy methods—Darkness Therapy and Nature Psychotherapy—that draw upon shamanic elements.