In the late 1940s, French anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss watched a shaman in the Amazon cure a woman’s trauma — not with medicine, but through symbols, metaphors, and stories.
Sound familiar? That’s therapy.
In this clip from People Stuff, Dan and Michael explore how modern psychology may just be the latest form of an ancient human tradition: shamanic healing.
Maybe your therapist is just a shaman with a clipboard.
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