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Record Nr.

UNINA9910779684803321

Autore

Santostefano Sebastiano <1929-, >

Titolo

Child therapy in the great outdoors : a relational view / / Sebastiano Santostefano

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hillsdale, N.J. : , : Analytic Press, , 2004

ISBN

1-135-06048-7

0-203-76745-4

1-299-47875-1

1-135-06049-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (259 p.)

Collana

Relational perspectives book series ; ; v. 29

Disciplina

618.92/8914

Soggetti

Child psychotherapy

Psychotherapist and patient

Nature, Healing power of

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-240) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Interacting and Enacting with a Therapist and Environments: The Path to the Pathway of Change; 2 Ernest: I Detached My Embodied Self from Relationships Because of the Pain and Emotional Deprivation I Experienced; 3 Vera: Abandoned at the Doorstep of an Orphanage,  I Battled the Abuse I Embodied to Gain My Freedom; 4 Ernest and Vera from the Vantage Point of Environmental Psychology and Ecopsychology; 5 A Psychoanalytic-Relational-Developmental Model for Conducting Child Psychotherapy

6 Environments, Interactions, and Embodied Meanings: Probing How Three Are OneReferences; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Building on relational conceptualizations of enactment and on developmental research that attests to the role of embodied, nonverbal language in the meanings children impute to their experiences, Sebastiano Santostefano offers this compelling demonstration of effective child therapy conducted in the "great outdoors."  Specifically, he argues that, for the child, traumatic life-metaphors should be resolved at an embodied rather than an exclusively verbal level; they



should be resolved, that is, as they are enacted between child and therapist.  To this end, child and therapist must take advantag