Alejandro Jodorowsky

Alejandro Jodorowsky (Tocopilla, Chile, 1929) is a cult filmmaker, writer, tarologist, and therapist. He developed two distinct therapeutic methods: psychomagic (symbolic interventions to shift unconscious dynamics) and metagenealogy (a transgenerational systemic analysis of the family tree combining psychoanalysis, tarot, mythology, and Hellinger).

His book Metagenealogy (2011, Siruela), co-written with Marianne Costa, is one of the few Spanish-language texts that systematizes a unique transgenerational reading, with affinities to Hellinger and Schützenberger but a distinctive authorial mark (ritualism, symbolism, tarot as an exploratory tool).

Jodorowsky is a cultural reference highly respected by much of the Hispanic-Latin American audience. His work, with its own artistic-ritual methodology distinct from Hellinger or Schützenberger, influences how the Hispanic public approaches the transgenerational territory.

In the glossary, he appears as a complementary reference, not as a methodological core. Useful for therapists who receive clients with a Jodorowskyan framework and need to build bridges towards the classic systemic method.