Samuel Bendeck Sotillos

About

Samuel Bendeck Sotillos, PsyD, LMFT, LPCC, CCMHC, NCC, CPRP, CCTP, MHRS, is a practicing psychotherapist in California, who has worked for many years in the field of mental health and social services. His focus is on the intersection between psychology, culture, and spirituality. He is a member of the Task Force on Indigenous Psychology (Division 32 of the American Psychological Association), an advisor to the Institute of Traditional Psychology, on the scientific board of the Knowledge and Hope Foundation, and on the editorial board of a few journals. He has written four books and edited one. Two new works are currently in production: "Sacred Psychology: A Global Perspective" (Equinox, 2025); and "Psyche and the Sacred: Integrating Mental Health and Spiritual Well-Being" (Sentient, 2025). He has written over five dozen articles and one hundred book reviews in a wide range of journals.

Publications

Homelessness: A Rupture of Belonging

Sacred Web: A Journal of Tradition and Modernity

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Psyche and the Sacred: Integrating Mental Health and Spiritual Well-Being

Sentient Publications

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My altered states: A doctor's extraordinary account of trauma, psychedelics, and spiritual growth

Journal of Psychedelic Studies

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Sacred Psychology: A Global Perspective

Equinox Publishing

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The Deification of the Psyche: Carl Jung and the Spiritual Crisis of the Modern World

Sacred Web: A Journal of Tradition and Modernity

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Book Review: Coyote’s Swing: A Memoir and Critique of Mental Hygiene in Native America WalkerD. E., (2023). Coyote’s Swing: A Memoir and Critique of Mental Hygiene in Native America. Pullman, WA: Washington State University, pp. 410, $34.95.

Journal of Humanistic Psychology

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Entheogens and Sacred Psychology

Spirituality Studies

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Why Self-Care Is Not Enough: The Nature of True Well-Being

Spiritual Psychology and Counseling

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Review of “The Essential Whitall Perry” by Harry Oldmeadow

Journal of Contemporary Rituals and Traditions

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Modern Psychology and the Loss of Transcendence

Journal of Comparative Literature and Aesthetics

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Modern Psychology, Eros, and the Sexual Revolution

Transcendent Philosophy: An International Journal for Comparative Philosophy and Mysticism

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The Enneagram’s Science of the Soul

Spirituality Studies

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Therapy today and its abandonment of the marginalized.

Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology

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Realms of Consciousness and the Real

Spirituality Studies

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Suicide: A Spiritual Perspective

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The Inner and Outer Human Being

Mountain Path

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The Quest For Who We Are: Modern Psychology and the Sacred

Fons Vitae

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Review of Sculpting the self: Islam, selfhood, and human flourishing.

The Humanistic Psychologist

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Towards an Islamic Psychology and Psychotherapy

Spiritual Psychology and Counseling

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Addiction and the Quest for Wholeness

Spirituality Studies

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Human Birth as Theophany

Sacred Web: A Journal of Tradition and Modernity

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Recovering the Eye of the Heart

The Mountain Path

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The Eclipse of the Soul and the Rise of the Ecological Crisis

Spirituality Studies

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The Metaphysics of Trauma

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The Transfiguration of the Human Being

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The decolonization of psychology or the science of the soul

Spirituality Studies

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Siena, city of the virgin: Illustrated by titus burckhardt

Studia Gilsoniana

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Paths That Lead to the Same Summit: An Annotated Guide to World Spirituality

The Matheson Trust

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Dismantling Freud: Fake Therapy and the Psychoanalytic Worldview

Angelico Press

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Madness and Its Enigmatic Origins

Sacred Web: A Journal of Tradition and Modernity

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The Self and the Other in the Light of the One: The Metaphysics of Human Diversity

Sacred Web: A Journal of Tradition and Modernity

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Psychology Without Spirit: The Freudian Quandary

Institute of Traditional Psychology

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Behaviorism: The Quandary of a Psychology without a Soul

Institute of Traditional Psychology

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The Human and Transpersonal Dimensions of Personality

Sacred Web: A Journal of Tradition and Modernity

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The Impasse of Modern Psychology: Behaviorism, Psychoanalysis, Humanistic, and Transpersonal Psychology in the Light of the Perennial Philosophy

Psychology and the Perennial Philosophy: Studies in Comparative Religion

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Editorial

Psychology and the Perennial Philosophy: Studies in Comparative Religion

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