Using Superheroes in Counseling and Play TherapyHarness the Therapeutic Power of the Superhero!
With an incisive historical foreword by John Shelton Lawrence and insight from contributors such as Michael Brody, Patty Scanlon, and Roger Kaufman, Lawrence Rubin takes us on a dynamic tour of the benefits of using these icons of popular culture and fantasy in counseling and play therapy. Not only can superheroes assist in clinical work with children, but Rubin demonstrates how they can facilitate growth and change with teen and adults. Early childhood memories of how we felt pretending to have the power to save the world or our families in the face of impending danger still resonate in our adult lives, making the use of superheroes attractive as well, to the creative counselor. In presenting case studies and wisdom gleaned from practicing therapists' experience, Lawrence Rubin shows how it is possible to uncover children's secret identities, assist treatment of adolescents with sexual behavior problems, and inspire the journey of individuation for gay and lesbian clients, all by paying attention to our intrinsic social need for superhero fantasy and play. |
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Because he believed that comics were calculatingly designed to “seduce the innocent,” he saw no evidence “that comic books come from the 'unconscious'” (p. 244); thus, they lacked any expressive value in the lives of children, ...
... happen to it under different emotional circumstances,” directing admiration to “the uncanny capacity for the script writers to delve down into their own unconscious and dig up these problems and depict them” (U.S. Senate, 1954, p.
Whether the villains take the form of tricksters or shadows, they offer a vivid glimpse into the oftenirreconcilable tensions in both the personal and collective unconscious. For Fingeroth (2004), “In confronting super villains, ...
This parallels the process that occurs in the sandtray between the client's unconscious inner world and the conscious world of the sandtray and reality. SANDPLAY THERAPY Margaret Lowenfeld, a British child psychiatrist, is credited with ...
By having the client focus on the experience of working in the tray, they may be more able to tap into unconscious materials. This “inbetween space” of the tray, a term coined by Ruth Ammann (1991), is where the client's inner and outer ...
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SECTION II Superheroes and Unique Clinical Applications | 103 |
SECTION III Nontraditional Therapeutic Applications of Superheroes | 225 |
Afterword | 319 |
Appendix | 321 |
Index | 327 |
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| Titre | Using Superheroes in Counseling and Play Therapy |
| Rédacteur | Lawrence C. Rubin, PhD, LMHC, RPT-S |
| Éditeur | Springer Publishing Company, 2006 |
| ISBN | 0826101321, 9780826101327 |
| Longueur | 368 pages |
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