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October 2002, Vol 92, No. 10 | American Journal of Public Health 1576-1581
© 2002 American Public Health Association
What We Can Learn From Shamanic Healing: Brief Psychotherapy With Latino Immigrant Clients

Marlene Dobkin de Rios, PhD

The author is with the Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, University of California, Irvine.

Correspondence: Requests for reprints should be sent to Marlene Dobkin de Rios, PhD, 2555 E Chapman Ave, Suite 407, Fullerton, CA 92831 (e-mail: septrion{at}aol.com).

The author, a medical anthropologist and licensed psychotherapist, draws on a database of 700 Latino immigrant families whom she has treated to demonstrate concepts and techniques of psychotherapeutic intervention that are derived from shamanic roots in the immigrant’s original culture.

Congruences may exist between the shamanic techniques of the coastal and Amazonian regions of Peru and 3 Western psychotherapy techniques—hypnosis, behavior modification, and cognitive restructuring.

By using historic links with Hispanic culture and the techniques discussed in the commentary, psychotherapists can acquire cultural competence that will enable them to effectively reduce mental illness symptoms presented by US Latino immigrants in clinical practice.




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