Soul Medicine: Healing through Dream Incubation, Visions, Oracles, and Pilgrimage
&
Coming Home In Viet Nam, a collection of 20+ years of pilgrimage poetry
Online via Zoom
and in person @ the Unitarian Universalist Society of Amherst
(121 N Pleasant St, Amherst, MA)
Internationally-acclaimed author, therapist and journey leader, Edward Tick, PhD, LMHC, brings ancient healing wisdoms alive in his forthcoming book, Soul Medicine: Healing through Dream Incubation, Visions, Oracles and Pilgrimages (Healing Arts Press | Inner Traditions, 2023). Soul Medicine depicts histories and case studies of healings achieved & lives transformed using practices from the classical ancient world in psychotherapy, mentorship, and in the nearly 50 pilgrimages to Greece and Viet Nam Tick has led from 1995-2022. This book demystifies ancient healing wisdom in order to help restore soul and spirit to psychology, medicine, and transformative healing practices today.
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Seeking the most powerful healing practices to address the invisible wounds of war, Dr. Ed Tick has led journeys to Vietnam for veterans, survivors, activists, and pilgrims for the past twenty years. This moving and revelatory collection documents the people, places, and experiences on these journeys. It illuminates the soul-searching and healing that occurs when Vietnamese women and children and veterans of every faction of the "American War" gather together to share storytelling and ritual, grieving, reconciliation, and atonement.
Edward Tick, Ph.D., is an internationally-acclaimed transformational psychotherapist, pilgrimage guide, educator, author, and poet. A specialist in archetypal psychotherapy and the healing of violent trauma, he is the author of the forthcoming Soul Medicine, Healing Through Dream Incubation, Visions, Oracles, and Pilgrimage (Inner Traditions, January 2023), along with three collections of poetry and four previous nonfiction books, including The Practice of Dream Healing and War and the Soul. He has been published in The New York Times, The San Francisco Chronicle, Light of Consciousness Magazine, and more. His works have been translated into Ukrainian, Greek, Vietnamese, Bulgarian, Japanese, and Italian. He lives in central Massachusetts where he runs his private practice while providing ongoing volunteer consultation support to mental health colleagues and troops in Ukraine, Italy, Greece, and Russia. Ed is devoted to healing from millenniums of collective trauma, and to restoring soul and spirit in our modern world.