Cite as (APA style): Karahan, E., Varlıklı, G. & Özberk, Ö. (2026). Transcultural Bridges: Traces of Positive Psychotherapy in the Verses of Aşık Veysel Şatıroğlu. The Global Psychotherapist, 6(1), 288-294
Abstract: This article aims to explore sections of the life of Aşık Veysel Şatıroğlu, an important 20th-century Turkish folk poet, and excerpts from his works, in line with the principles of Positive Psychotherapy. It will attempt to understand how Veysel, who lost his eyesight at a young age and struggled with various life difficulties, strengthened the bridge he built with society and himself by discovering a means of self-expression with the saz (a traditional Turkish stringed instrument) his father bought him, and how he conveyed deep meanings to the inner world of man with his works. Behind the process of coping with the difficulties Aşık Veysel experienced, there seems to be a powerful narrative that prompts us to question the nature of man and intersects with Positive Psychotherapy. By examining sections of Veysel’s life and works, Positive Psychotherapy will be examined with respect to the body, success, relationships, and spirituality. An attempt will be made to understand how his story of self-discovery became a universal human narrative. An attempt will be made to transfer accumulated lives and values across cultures through transcultural transfer.
Keywords: Positive Psychotherapy, transcultural, Aşık Veysel