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The debate on abortion has tended to avoid the psychological
significance of an unwanted pregnancy, dominated instead by the
strong emotions the subject excites. In this book Eva Pattis Zoja
examines the thoughts and feelings that surround the decision to
end a pregnancy, through the dreams, diary entries and reports of
the women themselves.
"Abortion" proposes the controversial thesis that although
contraception is so readily available that the occurrence of
unwanted pregnancy should become nil, abortion has now become a
rite of passage in womanhood. While acknowledging the painful
nature of the subject, the author suggests that this decision to
abort as a way to development is one beyond the explanation of
modern, enlightened rationalism.
Sandplay Therapy in Vulnerable Communities offers a new method
of therapeutic care for people in acute crisis situations such as
natural disasters and war, as well as the long-term care of
children and adults in areas of social adversity including slums,
refugee camps and high-density urban areas.
This book provides detailed case studies of work carried out in
South Africa, China and Colombia and combines practical discussions
of expressive sandwork projects with brief overviews of their
sociohistoric background. Further topics covered include:
- the social aspect of psychoanalysis
- the importance of play
- pictographic writing and the psyche.
Providing the reader with clear, practical instructions for
carrying out their own sandwork project, this book will be
essential reading not only for psychotherapists involved with
sandplay therapy but also for those with an interest in cross
cultural psychotherapy, as well as all professionals working with
those in situations of social adversity.
Ten European sandplay therapists describe how severe
psychopathologies can be treated in the free and protected space of
the sandbox. The sandplay therapy cases in this book illustrate
some of the most difficult, yet also most effective applications:
psychoses, borderline syndromes, psychosomatic illnesses, drug
addictions, or narcissistic character disorders. Sandplay seems to
access areas of human suffering which have otherwise always
resisted psychotherapeutic treatment. Recent research in
neuroscience explains why this is possible: trauma is not
remembered in verbal form -- what has never been articulated in
words nor ever shaped cannot be outwardly expressed. In sandplay,
however, it manifests itself as a form, shaped by the hands. The
inexpressible can be seen and touched -- therefore, it can be
transformed.
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