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. The presenter will draw on her experience as a psychologist and Jungian psychoanalyst as well as her immersion in Andean shamanistic practice.  

Learning Objectives:

1. Describe Andean medicine and its relevance to psychoanalytic practice
2. Discuss similarities and differences in the ways atemporal states are understood in Jung’s concept of the unconscious and objective psyche, Andean shamanism, quantum theory and clinical application.
3. Explain the relevance in understanding atemporal dimensions in working with implicit states in the analytic process.
4. Conceptualizing the psychoanalytic process from a broader perspective that includes Jungian psychology, fractal dynamics, and shamanism.

Deborah Bryon is a licensed psychologist and senior Jungian Analyst in private practice, and a member International Association of Jungian Analysts (IAAP) and Inter-Regional Society of Jungian Analysts (IRSJA). She is the author of three books Lessons of the Inca shamans, Part I: Piercing the Veil (Pine Winds Press, 2012) and 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). 

Her more recent publications include  “Implicit states of connectivity in the clinical practice of Jungian psychoanalysis and Andean shamanism” (Journal of Analytical Psychology, 2023), “Are Psychedelics Really Necessary?” in Psychedelics and Individuation (eds. Les Stein and Lionel Corbett, 2023), “Bastard children of the avant-garde: artistic expression in the cubist and abstract expressionist movements and the psychoanalytic process” (Journal of Analytical Psychology, May 2022), and “Processing trauma in psychoanalysis in real time and in dreams: The convergence of past, present, and future during covid 19” (Journal of Analytic Psychology, July 2021).