Back To Thinking Outside The Box
By Neal Brodsky
A Chapter from “Deep Play: “Exploring Depth in Psychotherapy with Children”, Jessica Kingsley Publishers, London, 2015. NOT RE-PRINTABLE FOR SALE
The interweaving of body-centered expressive movement, sand, clay, poetry, drawing and dreams comprise the canvas on which I work with children and adolescents. This chapter focuses on two cases where a combination of body-centered Core Energetics* including expressive arts and Sandplay allowed two boys to find their own channels for concrete achievement and growing independence in the context of complex and often challenging family lives. Treated separately, they shared me as their therapist and became, through their concurrent process, instruments of each other’s healing.
*Core Energetics, founded and pioneered by John C. Pierrakos, M.D. blends body psychotherapy with spiritual development. As children, we begin to armor against emotional wounds through chronic “holding” in the musculature and development of a “mask” persona. Core Energetics practice includes physical and consciousness-building activities which seek to restore each person’s "Center of Right Energy" (Core), opening the heart to a wider range of emotional response and authentic life expression. Neal Brodsky and colleagues are adapting this work for use with children and adolescents.
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