Roger Woolger
| Roger J. Woolger | |
|---|---|
| Born | December 18, 1944 Crowborough, Sussex, England |
| Died | 18/11/2011 New Platz , New York |
| Residence | New Paltz, New York, Paris and Salvador, Brazil |
| Citizenship | UK/US |
| Nationality | British  |
| Fields | Analytical psychology, Transpersonal psychology, Shamanic healing; Psychology of Mysticism |
| Institutions | Vassar College University of Vermont Concordia University |
| Alma mater | University of Oxford King's College London C. G. Jung Institute in Zürich |
| Known for | Other Lives, Other Selves |
| Influences | Carl Jung, Simone Weil, Jacob L. Moreno, Wilhelm Reich, Sigmund Freud, Rene Guenon |
| Influenced | Carol Bowman |
Roger J. Woolger was a psychotherapist, lecturer and author specializing in past life regression spirit release and shamanic healing. He was educated at the University of Oxford[1] and King's College London, where he gained degrees in psychology, religion and philosophy. He then trained as an analyst at the C. G. Jung Institute in Zürich. His method is today called Deep Memory Process.
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[edit] Deep Memory Process
He began his practice with conventional Jungian therapy methods, including dreamwork, but through this began to discover images which seemed to be past life memories. He found a therapeutic and spiritual value in this method, which entails trauma release, psychodrama, deep body therapy, Tibetan "bardo" work and shamanic spirit release. This synthesis is today called Deep Memory Process.
[edit] Academia
Woolger has been a Professor at Vassar College, the University of Vermont and Concordia University, Montreal, as well as leading workshops at the New York Open Center, Omega Institute and Esalen Institute. He runs training programs in the US, UK, Holland, Portugal, Germany and Brazil.
He is a co-founder of the European Association for Regression Therapy EARTh with Hans Ten Dam and others. He is honorary President of the International Deep Memory Association (IDMA) and directed European conferences for IDMA on Spiritual Healing: "Regression and Shamanism" (Portugal, 2006); "War and Human Memory" (Austria, 2006); "Exile and Longing to Return" (Ireland, 2008). He is Founder and Director of O Instituto para O Psique e as Tradicoes Espirituais in Salvador, Brazil, 2008.
[edit] Books
Woolger's book Other Lives, Other Selves (Doubleday, 1987) has been translated into Portuguese, Dutch, German, French, Italian, Spanish and Japanese. He is one the twelve contributors to the standard work on regression therapy: Winafred Blake Lucas (editor), Regression Therapy: A Handbook for Professionals, (2 volumes, Deep Forest Press, Crest Park, CA, 1993). Lucas writes in her Introduction: "[Woolger's] chapters on theory are the most innovative in the field and his book currently [1993] is the one most used in training" (p. 20). Part of his contributions to Lucas's handbook appears in Seymour Boorstein's compendium, Transpersonal Psychotherapy (2nd ed. State University of New York Press, 1996) under the title "Past-Life Regression Therapy",
His second book, The Goddess Within (1989), co-written with Jennifer Barker, examines feminine psychology in terms of Greek goddesses. He also published Healing Your Past Lives (2004) and Body Psychotherapy and Regression in Tree (ed) Body Psychotherapy (2002). His unpublished M.Phil Thesis was onThe Spiritual Philosophy of Simone Weil (King's College, London University, 1970).
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ Rowan, John The transpersonal: psychotherapy and counselling; p169
[edit] External links
- Roger Woolger official web site
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- Interview in Kindred Spirit
- Interview at Sounds True website
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