Coyote Speaks: Creative Strategies for Treating Alcoholics and Addicts
Rutzky weaves the wisdom of Native American Coyote stories, a wealth of scientific evidence, and his own sensitive intuition as an expert therapist into a new and convincing paradigm for understanding alcoholics and addicts. This wonderful and moving book will surprise many professionals who treat them. (Franz Mechsner, Ph.D., Max Planck Institute for Psychological Research)Jacques Rutzky makes a real contribution to the field by illustrating the central importance of the trickster archetype in the psyche of the alcoholic and addict. This is an extremely valuable resource for all mental health professionals who treat them—an unusual and moving work. (Robert Matano, Ph.D., director, Stanford University Alcohol and Drug Treatment Center)This book presents the problem of alcoholism and addictions from the point of view of the trickster as symbolized in the Native American myths of Coyote. The author demonstrates how various coyote stories dovetail with personal clinical histories, and also provides an overview of how psychotherapy works and does not work with alcoholics in a very human and understandable way. (Thomas Kirsch, M.D., Immediate Past President, International Association of Analytical Psychology, Zurich)