By Dennis McCarthy
"Draw me an image of what you will appear like when you changed into a monster." Dennis McCarthy's paintings with distressed or traumatized kids starts with an workout that's uncomplicated yet very potent: he invitations the kid to speak with him of their personal manner, in the course of the non-verbal language of play. utilizing case reviews from his medical event and with quite a few kid's monster drawings, McCarthy shall we the significant self-expression of the kid take centre degree. He demonstrates that being allowed to play, flow and draw hastily and creatively within the supportive presence of the therapist is in truth the start of the healing procedure. those actions are proven to be extra healing for the kid in useful phrases than the translation of the clues it presents in regards to the kid's frame of mind. This very available ebook might be inspiring analyzing for play therapists and different pros operating therapeutically with teenagers and their households.
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The child may stand up from the sandbox after such an experience and really be reorganized or renewed. I hope to offer many examples of this in the coming pages. 29). In Dora Kalff ’s classic book Sand Play, she offers two key aspects of children’s symbols that explain their power. They are pictorial images of wholeness or the path to wholeness and they are energy-laden. The energy within a symbol becomes available to the child once it is manifest. Accessing the symbol accesses the energy, and the accessed energy has the potential to further express itself in even more alive images.
Mark’s first monster, which I asked him to make at our session’s onset, was very tiny. Its head was so small there was no room for features. He was extremely uncomfortable making it, partly because he felt he wasn’t good at drawing and didn’t like to do things he wasn’t naturally good at, and partly because of what doing so represented to him. His drawing was hardly visible just as the monsters in the scene were invisible. Yet even the indication that they existed, which came from Mark, allowed for the beginning of change.
One woman with a bucket now stood by the well. The trees no longer hid the church. We see a basic shift in all three sections of the scene, and we can be sure an inner change is taking place. What had happened inwardly to explain this change? Molly took a very long time to make her scenes and had my undivided attention during this time. Each figure was placed with care. One FROM SYMBOL TO ENERGY 43 could see that Molly was experiencing a connection between the objects and her inner self. In our first visit, after making her scene and with only a few minutes left, Molly eyed the encounter bats I have in my office.
