(Towards) An Anthropology of Therapy and Healing in the US
por Jinji Willingham
1. Psychoanalysis: Freud, Jung, Adler, Self-Psychology, Existentialism, Winnicott, Bowlby
2. World Healing Practices, Ancient to Present
2.1. India: Hinduism/Myth, Buddhism, Yoga, Ayurvedic, Upanishads and Gita, Yoga Nidra, Tantric, Advaita Vedanta. Gandhi, Krishnamurti
2.2. Vietnam: Zen Buddhism, Thich Nhat Hanh & Mindfulness, Colonial Influx of Christianity
2.3. Tibet: Tibetan Buddhism, Dalai Lama
2.4. China: Taoism, Tao de Ching, Confucianism, Buddhism, Feng Shui, Qi Gong
2.5. Japan: Zen Buddhism, Shintoism, Macrobiotics, Nine Star Ki, Hakomi, Naikan, Morita
2.6. Korean: Acupuncture, Herbal & Aromatherapy, Moxibustion, Meditation
2.7. African: Amasiko herbal ritual and application; medicinal plants and herbs, dance, drumming, tribal ritual, Magic (sympathetic magic), diviners, charms, incantionations, and spells.
2.8. Islamic: prayer and conversation based on Quran and Sunnah. Sufi Healing: spiritual, energy work, herbs, and cupping.
2.9. Middle Eastern: Inner/Outer healing, Sufi Healing, Healing oils, roots, and and herbs (aromatherapy), Kabbalistic Healling.
2.10. Native and South American/Indigenous Healing: Shamanic
3. Psychiatry and Psychology (Medical Model) to Psychotherapy/Therapy, Counseling in the US (Social Model) From "Patient" to "Client."
3.1. US Universities model themselves after the German Research University. A Medical Model: APA and DSM. US Psychiatrists are Euro-Centric Psychoanalists/Existentialists: Even: Rogers, Perls, Yalom (and others)
3.2. Rogerian/Experiential Therapy*
3.3. Behavior Therapy
3.4. Cognitive Therapy
3.5. Systems Therapy and Family Therapy*
3.6. Constructionist Therapy
3.7. Social Constructionist Therapy*
3.8. Solution-Focused Therapy
3.9. Narrative Therapy
3.10. Feminist and Multicultural Therapy*
3.11. Integral Therapy
3.12. Interpersonal Neurobioogy
4. Socio-Cultural Factors
4.1. Travel and Immigration
4.2. 1960's Counter Culture/Increase of "New Age" Thinking
4.2.1. Medievel Alchemy, Hermeticism,
4.2.2. European Mystics influence by Eastern Ideas: Swedenbourg, Mesmer, Blatavsky, and Gurdjieff, influence US intellectuals/writers.
4.2.3. US Transcendentalists