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The Symbolic Impetus : How Creative Fantasy Motivates Development
The Symbolic Impetus How Creative Fantasy Motivates Development Author:Charles T. Stewart, Charles Stewart Clinical work with children - however challenging - is imbued with a peculiar excitement which arises out of the therapists necessary immersion in the kaleidoscopic flow of symbolic images that inform the child's play, dreams, fantasies, modellings, paintings, singing and dancing. In The Symbolic Impetus Jungian child psychiatrist Charles S... more »tewart describes the symbolic process at each stage from infancy onwards. In addition he shows how particular symbols can facilitate the healing of blocks that may arise in each stage of psychological development. The book is in two parts. In Part I each of the chapters describes a new phase of the symbolic process as it emerges in typical fantasies that accompany a stage of normal development. In Part II each chapter is devoted to the exposition of the particular healing role played by symbols at different stages of development in psychotherapy with infants, children, adolescents and adults. Charles Stewart provides an unusually coherent narrative that makes an important contribution not just to the Jungian understanding of child development and psychotherapy but to the field of depth psychology in general.« less