Playing the Unconscious : Psychoanalytic Interviews with Children Using Winnicott's Squiggle Technique

ISBN-13: 9781855754195 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 224 str.

Michael Gunter

Opis

This book argues that the squiggle game enables the therapist in most cases to make contact with a child with particular ease. Often, if the child takes up the suggestion, an intense dialogue develops which gives insight into the inner situation, even in the cases where the child is consciously very reserved and in which the talk emerging from the squiggle game seems to be unproductive, the pictures offers a chance to start talking about precisely why he or she shows such reserve.

The book explains the importance of setting up the psychotherapeutic interview situation to be playful in character, making it fun for both therapist and child. The squiggle game makes this easier because it generates a playful atmosphere which nevertheless has a very serious side to it.

Including comprehensive examples from the author's practice, this book is destined to become the definitive source for using Winnicott's squiggle game in clinical practice.

Spis treści

Foreword -- Introduction: practice and theory of the squiggle game -- Gifts from an angel: will there be rescue from danger? -- Whale, camel or giraffe with a balloon of a tummy? -- Of pirates and their treasures: the child analyst as archaeologist and treasure hunter -- Deep impact: "They are all nutcases" -- A lion and a broken comb: problematic identification with the father after a traumatic previous history -- The oh-so-good angel and the sock -- The rattlesnake with a knot in its tail -- How do sea monsters help against bed-wetting? -- The king's castle, the mother's rucksack. The wish for the Other on facing death -- Ghosts, babies and Chinese porcelain cups. Fear, fragility and the wish to be beautiful -- Scribbling as an activity done together: squiggle pictures as tangible objects in the outside world -- The rift in the earth and the king's wicked son. The threatening experience of psychosis -- Psychoanalytical access to children under extreme stress: squiggle interviews in research

O autorze

Michael Gunter