All day long I'm worrying All night long I'm blue I feel so awful and lonesome

1. Little Brother Montgomery PRESCRIPTION FOR THE BLUES Rare Chicago Blues 1962-1968 All day long I'm worrying All night long I'm blue I feel so awful and lonesome I don't know what to do And so I ask you doctor To see if you can find Something in your satchel To pacify my mind So doctor, doctor why not write me A prescription for the blues

2. Little Brother Montgomery PRESCRIPTION FOR THE BLUES Rare Chicago Blues 1962-1968 Now let me tell you doctor Why I'm in misery Once I had a lover She went away from me Now when I went to see the Egyptian The hoodoo doctors too They shook their heads and told me There's nothing they could do So doctor doctor why not write me A prescription for the blues

3. Just like a little baby All day long I cry Now doctor well if you cannot cure me I'll just as soon to die Now give me something poison Now doctor won't you please Then I'll sign a paper Saying I died with a heart disease So doctor doctor why not write me A prescription for the blues Little Brother Montgomery PRESCRIPTION FOR THE BLUES Rare Chicago Blues 1962-1968

5. PSYCHOTHERAPY from a comparative, cross-cultural perspective a general model & some examples

7. J. D. Frank Persuasion and Healing Psychotherapy: attempts to bring about relief of symptoms primarily by words, acts, and rituals (physical and chemical agents, if used, are adjunct to the main process)

8. J. D. Frank Persuasion and Healing The Least Common Denominators of psychotherapy cross-culturally: • a healing agent • a sufferer • a method • social support

9. J. D. Frank Persuasion and Healing The Least Common Denominators of psychotherapy cross-culturally: • a healing agent: a person recognized as being trained in a socially sanctioned method

10. J. D. Frank Persuasion and Healing The Least Common Denominators of psychotherapy cross-culturally: • a sufferer: a person who • accepts the definition of his/her affliction • seeks relief from the healer • believes in the effectiveness of the healer's method

11. J. D. Frank Persuasion and Healing The Least Common Denominators of psychotherapy cross-culturally: • a method: a circumscribed, more or less structured series of contacts between the healer and the sufferer

12. J. D. Frank Persuasion and Healing The Least Common Denominators of psychotherapy cross-culturally: • social support: expressions of belief in the effectiveness of the healer's method by at least some members of the sufferer's social group.

13. Richard Bandler And John Grinder “Neuro-linguistic programming”

14. John Michael Greer: …ritual is action done for its symbolic meaning rather than its practical value.  …ritual can have remarkable properties when it’s applied in the right way, for the right purposes. This is the secret of magic … 

15. John Michael Greer: magic – the art and science of causing change in consciousness in accordance with will… If what you’re trying to do depends on the choices of conscious beings, magic works.   If the troubles faced by an individual or a community are primarily a function of consciousness, magical methods can be extraordinary effective in dealing with them. If the trouble that has to be faced has its roots in the world of matter, though, there are hard limits to what magic can do.

16. Books by Mara Selvini Palazzoli

17. Mara Selvini Palazzoli:A MODEL OF THE SIX STAGE PROCESS CULMINATING IN A CHILDHOOD PSYCHOTIC BREAKDOWN

18. Six Stage Model: • Parental stalemate • Child enters parents' game, siding with "loser" • Child challenges power of "winner" by unusual behavior

19. Six Stage Model: • Child fails to achieve goal • Child resorts to crazy behavior to prevail at all costs • The family game continues and the psychotic behavior is maintained

20. Selvini Palazzoli: In anorexia the epistemological error is that all of the family members believe that the patient, because of her symptom, wields power over the rest and renders them helpless.

21. The therapeutic paradox: The symptom, defined as essential to family unity, is not proscribed but prescribed to the patient by the therapist. It is not forbidden but ordered: "Continue limiting your food intake!"

25. Dreams and Wishes of the Soul: A Type of Psychoanalytic Theory Among the Seventeenth Century Iroquois Anthony F. C. Wallace

26. The Jesuit Relations (1632-1673)

31. The Sorcerer and His Magic (The story of Quesalid, the skeptical shaman)

32. Kwakiutl [Kwakwaka’wakw] British Columbia

34. Maxulagilis or Quesalid (George Hunt) and his family with Franz Boas 1894

35. Ojibwa shaman performing sucking extraction therapy

37. Kwakiutl mask depicting the mad woman of the forest Chumash shaman, Southern California

38. Mask representing a Kwakiutl shaman in trance

39. Note what is not in Frank's model of psychotherapy: • The belief of the healer that the method is effective • Understanding by anyone involved (especially the support group) in how the method works • True sincerity by the support group in their expression of belief in the method