JUNGIAN ANALYTICAL Play Therapy
| JOHN PAUL, “J.P.” LILLY, MS, LCSW, RPT-S & ROSALIND HEIKO, PHD, RPT-S, ISST, NCSP
outside technique/person. The source of that change lies within the unconscious; and healing is manifested symbolically through the process of play. Play is the method by which children are empowered ineffable distinguishable and audible, and are able to achieve healthy transformation.
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Basic Tenets Fundamental to
understanding the basic tenets of JAPT is
comprehension of the structure of the psyche in children, and the process of ego development (Edinger, 1992). Three distinct components of the psyche are: the conscious, the ego, and the unconscious. Consciousness is divided into two parts – personal and collective. As experienced by the individual, consciousness is connected to perception and reflection, learning and retention, differentiation and discrimination, as well as adaptation. Of course, chronological age, environmental influences, emotional experience, and expression and cognition greatly influence children’s development (Ault, 1977).
The ego is that part of the psyche that mediates between consciousness and unconsciousness, concerning itself with cognition, maintenance of personality, personal
identity, and learning. Fordham (1973)
postulated that it gains its strength throughout life through a process of fragmentation (deintegration) when something new or stressful is encountered; and uniting and healing itself back together (reintegration) when skills are learned and used to resolve tensions following a new or stressful event.
The unconscious is also divided into two fundamental parts – the personal and the collective. The language of the unconscious is not expressed through words; but manifests through images,
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ungian analytical play therapy (JAPT) believes that the therapeutic power of healing and transformation comes directly from within the child, and not from any
symbols, dreams, metaphors, and archetypal material. The personal unconscious holds the experiences of the person’s life, while the collective unconscious holds the entire history of humankind. As the unconscious holds all of the necessary components for mastery, the JAPT practitioner promotes empirical manifestation of the healing language of the child through the symbolic language of play.
Client dysfunction in this model is found in all regions
of the person’s psyche, through the dysregulation of the ego in
its relationship to the conscious and unconscious aspects of the psyche.
Psychopathology and Client Dysfunction Client dysfunction in this model is found in all regions of the person’s psyche, through the dysregulation of the ego in its relationship to the conscious and unconscious aspects of the psyche. Psychic material can be repressed into the unconscious in the form of a protocomplex (Peery, 2003). Over time, this evolves into a full complex that Jung “symptoms,” accompanied by powerfully charged emotions attached to an archetypal core. The child has no conscious awareness of the repressed material but is susceptible to being “triggered” by events on a conscious level. In this case, the unconscious becomes the receptacle for overpowering material, and is also the basis for transforming and resolving what initially overwhelmed the ego and began the process of dysfunction.
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