Stories and storytelling in child psychotherapy.

Brandell, Jerrold R.

doi:10.1037/h0087530

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“…In addition, the child's metaphorical story communications are relatively free of the therapist's influence, a requirement that is not always easy to meet in the therapeutic playroom. Gardner (1971), Kritzberg (1975), Brandell (1984Brandell ( , 1986, and others have written extensively on the various ways in which children's stories can be used with or without artistic productions, sociodramatic play, and therapeutic games, and as either a technique or as a method in dynamic child psychotherapy. Autogenic communications have also been advocated as an important diagnostic instrument for the dynamically oriented child practitioner (Brandell, 1985).…”

Section: Autogenic Stories: "Royal Road" To the Child's Narrativementioning

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Narrative and historical truth in child psychotherapy.

Brandell¹

1988

Psychoanalytic Psychology

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The child diagnosis/assessment literature has traditionally emphasized the importance of data collection and integration as a prelude to treatment. The clinician, however, must also be concurrently engaged in a distinct and phenomenologically different task: that of initiating an intersubjective discourse with the child to enhance the unwinding of the narrative account. Because the assessment process is often geared toward the cultivation and synthesis of "data," historical truths become an important source of validation for clinical hypotheses and sometimes a near-exclusive referent of the assessment process. Failure to consider the importance of the child's narrative, however, will always restrict the flow and content of the intersubjective discourse between child and clinician and inevitably lead to unsatisfactory therapeutic results. Utilizing children's autogenic stories as vehicles for narrative expression is discussed and illustrated through clinical example, and the role of the story-metaphor as an instrument of therapeutic communication is also described. The psychodynamic literature on child diagnosis and assessment has traditionally emphasized the importance of data collection and integration as a prelude to treatment. The therapist's observation of the child in both clinical and naturalistic settings and of the child's parents and siblings; the developmental history; psychological test data; consultations with teachers, pediatricians, and others; as well as more detailed information regarding libidinal and aggressive drive development, development of the ego and superego, points of regression and fixation, and sublimatory potential, inter alia, are considered to contribute critically to the data base from which meaningful treatment evolves.

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Narrative and historical truth in child psychotherapy.

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1988

Psychoanalytic Psychology

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“…In children's drawings and stories, the unconscious is often depicted as the sea and the ego as the land (Brandell, 1988). When children are overwhelmed by strong emotions, the ego can take on the image of a "log" or "boat" that is being tossed around on a stormy sea.…”

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“…Symbols of the Shadow include the snake, as in the Garden of Eden, dragons, monsters, and demons (Allan & Bertoia, 1992;Von Franz, 1982). In stories, shadow characters often guard the entrance to a cave or pool of water, which can represent the collective unconscious (Brandell, 1988).…”

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“…The Child is represented in mythology and art not only by infants, but as other small creatures as well (Brandell, 1988;Gallagher, 1997). The Christ child celebrated at Christmas is a manifestation of the Child archetype, and represents future salvation.…”

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“…Jung ( 1964) said that because this pattern can be rather abstract, we are likely to project this archetypal pattern out into the world and onto a particular person, usually our own mothers. Even when an archetype does not have a real person available, we tend to personify the archetype, and tum it into a mythological "storybook" character (Brandell, 1988;Samuels et al, 1986). This character then comes to symbolize the archetype, which means that virtually any person or fictional character can subsume an archetypal meaning for an individual.…”

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