Psychomagic: The Transformative Power of Shamanic Psychotherapy
| Author | Alejandro Jodorowsky |
|---|---|
| Published | 2004 |
| Format | Book |
TL;DR — Filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky’s interviews and essays on ‘psychomagic’, staged symbolic acts he prescribes as therapy, drawing on theatre, dreams and Mexican folk healers.
Originally published in Spanish as Psicomagia (Random House Mondadori, 2004); the English translation was published by Inner Traditions in 2010. Part One, built on interviews with Gilles Farcet, moves through what Jodorowsky calls the poetic, theatrical, oneiric and magic acts to the “psychomagic act,” with examples and letters from people who carried out his prescriptions. Part Two, “Lessons for Mutants,” collects further conversations with Javier Esteban.
The method, as he describes it, is to prescribe a person a symbolic, often theatrical act aimed at a psychological knot, an approach he links in the prologue to years spent studying folk healers in Mexico City.
What it is: an artist’s account of his own esoteric therapeutic practice; not psychology or medicine. In-print book.
Where this came from
- A copy saved in October 2026.
194 pages. A PDF copy is held in Kyle’s private archive; it is not linked or shared here.