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

• Autore: Santostefano Sebastiano <1929-, >
• Pubblicazione: Hillsdale, N.J. : , : Analytic Press, , 2004
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (259 p.)
• Disciplina: 618.92/8914
• Soggetto topico: Child psychotherapy; Psychotherapist and patient; Nature, Healing power of
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Child therapy in the great outdoors
• ISBN: 1-135-06048-7; 0-203-76745-4; 1-299-47875-1; 1-135-06049-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910779684803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Relational perspectives book series ; ; v. 29.