Of mice and metaphors: therapeutics storytelling with children
Brandell, Jerrold RUnknown
SAGE (Thousand Oaks, California, 2017) (eng) English9781506305592Unknown2nd ed.NARRATIVE THERAPHY; Appendix: p. 147-149; Storytelling comes naturally to children, and Jerrold Brandell makes it a reciprocal process when he re-visions their stories therapeutically and bounces them back as part of a dynamic storytelling "game." Getting down to cases early on, he models the engagement of a range of struggling youngsters and the reparative interpretation and reconstruction of their narratives. The result will enhance the repertoires of play therapists and child analysts alike.
Physical dimension
xii, 163 p.23 cm.ill.
Summary / review / table of contents
Stories and Reciprocal Storytelling in Dynamic Child Psychotherapy -- Autogenic Stories, Projective Drawings, and the Clinical Assessment Process -- Narrative and Historical Meaning in Child Psychotherapy -- Applications to Special Clinical Issues and Problems of Childhood -- The Unfolding of the Narrative in the Psychotherapy of a Traumatized Ten-Year-Old Boy -- Transference Dimensions of the Storytelling Process -- Secrecy and Trauma : An Adopted Child's Psychotherapy -- What Else Can Stories Tell Us? : Using Children's Metaphorical Communications as a Measure of Therapeutic Progress.