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

Presenter: Deborah Bryon
Venue: Online via Zoom
Time: Tuesday evening, 18 February 2025 at 19:30 SAST (GMT +2)
Fee: ZAR150. Booking is essential.

Certificate Course Participants: Currently enrolled participants of SAAJA’s Certificate Course 2025 attend at no cost. Email saaja@mweb.co.za to register. 

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About the Lecture

In this presentation, Jungian analyst and psychologist, Deborah Bryon, PhD, offers Andean shamanic wisdom as it intersects with concepts from depth psychology and Jungian analysis.

Unlike those of us raised in Western culture, who want to understand everything through our logical mind, the Andean shamans believe that thinking about something brings separation while a heart-centered focus brings connection. The feelings of the heart lead the individual to the truth.

Besides being an approach that uses the heart instead of the head, there are other ways that the Andean approach is different from what we learn in the West. Because Andean medicine people come from a heart-focused culture, they begin by serving the collective spirit energy of all living things, and through working with the collective, they heal the individual person. 

After being adopted and inducted by Peruvian paqos (spiritual healers and medicine people from the Q’ero indigenous community), Deborah 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 utilises 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.

About the Presenter

Deborah Bryon, PhD, is a licensed psychologist and senior Jungian Analyst in private practice in Denver, Colorado (USA). She is a member of the International Association of Jungian Analysts (IAAP) and Inter-Regional Society of Jungian Analysts (IRSJA). 

She completed a BA in psychology at UCLA, a BFA in drawing at Metropolitan State College of Denver, and a PhD in Counseling Psychology at the University of Denver. Deborah obtained her analytic training with the Inter-Regional Society of Jungian Analysts and is a psychoanalyst through the National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis. She has taught in the psychology departments of the University of Colorado and Metropolitan State College of Denver.

Since 2005, Deborah has received in-depth training with Q’ero shamans in Peru and has undergone a series of sacred initiations with the shamans she has worked with. Deborah is writing, teaching classes, and leading groups combining Jungian depth psychology, psychoanalysis, and shamanism. 

Deborah is the author of three books – Lessons of the Inca shamans, Part I: Piercing the veil (Pine Winds Press, 2012), Lessons of the Inca shamans, Part II: Beyond the veil (Pine Winds Press, 2014), and Time and trauma in analytical psychology and psychotherapy: The wisdom of Andean shamanism (Routledge, 2024). She is also the author of several articles on shamanism and psychoanalysis.

BOOKING INFORMATION | Advance Booking Essential

• Bookings close at 12:00 noon SAST on Monday, 17 February 2025. The Zoom link will be distributed at 14:00 SAST on the day of the event.
• We invite students to contact us for a 50% discount to all our events.
• Currently enrolled participants of SAAJA’s Certificate Course 2025 attend at no cost. Please email saaja@mweb.co.za to register your attendance.
• In the event of tickets being sold out or sales closed, a recording of the lecture will be available for purchase. 
• For more information, contact SAAJA at +27 21 689 6090 or email saaja@mweb.co.za