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The supervisor told him: "I feel that you are more interested in sand table work than in the visitor himself, and the subject and life of the visitor are not seen." ”
The client was a boy, probably from about 4 years old, who had been blinking and tickling constantly, and the hospital's pediatric department had diagnosed tics. When I worked with the analyst, I was 7 years old, and I was in the second grade of elementary school, but my language skills were lagging behind.
In the work of the analyst and the child, he felt that the child sometimes could not express it clearly, and wanted to understand the child more by observing the interaction between father and son, so the eighth sand table, the analyst decided to let the child's father join the sand table and carry out the parent-child sand table.
But this actually means that analysts somehow do not accept the child's unclear speech.
When such a parent-child sandbox appears, who is the analyst working for?
This is an analytical work, so where the transference is, what is the anti-transference, must not be in a completely chaotic situation. What is the position of the analyst in the parent-child sandbox more than a dozen times? Like a companion or a referee or a waiter or a cheerleader, maybe even more like a recorder.
The analyst took the initiative to invite his father into the sandbox, which actually broke the analyst's workspace, and the analyst did not protect the setting of this space and the visitors. Jungian Sandbox Job Tasks:
Guardian work settings;
Listen and read the intention and motivation of the visitor in the sand painting, and then try to understand it. Analyst understanding helps clients transform and integrate.
Although the work of the sand table is effective, but the relationship is not clear, the father suddenly intervenes, the individual one-on-one sand table becomes a parent-child sandbox, the sand table here, how do we determine that we are working on the Jungian sandbox game, or a prop for a parent-child game. In this scenario, what is the position of the analyst?
And the state of such parent-child games is incomprehensible, because the motivation inside is too complicated, there are fathers and children. Unconscious conversation between one person and another is a very delicate, difficult, and very careful process, inviting the father into the sandbox space, which is equivalent to talking to two unconsciouses, and it is very dangerous to talk to two unconsciouses at the same time, unless schizophrenic. Shayou's job is to bring unconscious materials and resources into consciousness to complete the process of self-nature, a process of integration, which requires the analyst's self-confidence as a accommodate, if the analyst as a container accommodates both elements at the same time, it is impossible to integrate.
There is a family platter in family therapy, the position of the analyst is called the family therapist, the reason why family therapy is effective is because the treatment goal is not to solve the problem of the inner personality of a single person, but to focus on the relationship between people in the family, and the Jungian sand tour is the work of the individual, there is an essential difference, so the supervisor feels that he can not read the parent-child sand table behind and help the analyst understand the role that so many parent-child sand tables can play.
In fact, the child repairs itself quickly under the premise of the repair of the parent-child relationship, and if the framework of the work is clear and rigorous, the treatment effect may be better. In the parent-child sandbox, the child is also empathetic, because there are analysts in it, and the child is more confident, as if he is in his turf and can confront his father. This child's parent-child relationship has been repaired in such a parent-child game work, which is also very good for him.
But such a setup carries a very serious unknown danger. Perhaps analysts unconsciously fill the gap in the family in this parent-child game work. Since there is no way to know what role the analyst plays in this empathy, what role will the analyst play in the growth of the child when he gradually withdraws from the child, that is, after the vacancy leaves?
If it's something unclear, the best way is to inactively, and what is done is important, but one of the more important things for analysts is to sit in the right place.
(This article is excerpted from the "Garden of the Heart Charity Classroom" series)