The Other made visible
Creative methods, inner figures and agents of change when working through early childhood trauma in adulthood 1
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8983284 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Nora Swan‐Foster (0000-0001-5077-5718, Boulder Colorado USA, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 67 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 1020-1044 |
| Publication date | 2022-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Analytical Psychology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-8774 • E-ISSN: 1465-5922 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/1468-5922.12835 |
| PMID | 36165298 |
| OpenAlex | W4297258114 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 31 |
Jung used creative methods such as picture-making and active imagination to work with complexes and in particular trauma and dissociation. A clinical example of a 60-year-old woman demonstrates the benefits of using creative methods to work with issues linked to early life, such as somatic intrusions of early childhood trauma. Significant inner figures were delineated, including the original figure associated with the infantile dissociative split. The figures illustrated Jung's complex theory by making visible the nonverbal inner states that were initially feared and experienced as Other. Within an analytic relationship that included a working through, an innate creative process unfolded that permitted inner figures to become agents of change within her psyche. This paper highlights the value of Jung's complex theory and the use of creative methods when working with dissociation, regression and unformulated infantile states, even when the analysand is in the later stages of adulthood
Art · Dissociation (chemistry · Humanities · Physical chemistry · Psychoanalysis · Chemistry · Child Therapy and Development · Jungian Analytical Psychology · Psychology · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications
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Psychoanalytic Studies of the Personality
C. G. Jung’s Influence on Art Therapy and the Making of the Third
Urgent engagement in 9/11 pregnant widows and their infants
Alchemy and the repair of dissociation – a response to William Meredith‐Owen
Mind, brain and body. Healing trauma
Trauma, innocence and the core complex of dissociation
Attachment‐dissociation network
Emotions and Object Relations
Self‐disclosure, trauma and the pressures on the analyst
Don't get stuck in the mother
Undoing dissociation. Affective neuroscience
Shame and the Shadow
Meeting the orphan
A skin for the imaginal
Active Imagination—Deintegration Or Disintegration
Transference as a Form of Active Imagination
Art, dreams and active imagination
The day the clock stopped. Primitive states of unintegration, multidimensional working through and the birth of the analytical subject
Psychological implications of a vision disorder
Associative dreaming
From archetypes to reflective function
Levels of analytic work and levels of pathology
Standing in the Spaces
| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 0.67 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2024 (2) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |