Psychotherapy as a Subtle Transition

• INOMATA Tsuyoshi

  Tezukayama-gakuin University

Bibliographic Information

Other Title

• かすかな移行としての心理療法
• ユング心理学から見た変容
• Transformation of Jungian Psychology

Abstract

This paper examines the transformation of psychotherapy, based on a case of an adolescent who suffered from epilepsy. Even if an epileptic seizure is eliminated through medical treatment, the temperament of epilepsy persists. Consequently, the psychotherapy of epilepsy is not completed with the disappearance of symptoms. The issue of psychotherapeutic transformation is neither the elimination of symptoms nor, a metamorphosis to a completely new life. In the psychotherapy the basis of existence continues, always unchanged, but the door to another mode of existence opens. The depth of psychological psychotherapy connects the old mode to the new modes of existence through an invisible umbilical code (vinculum). Through this code we are exposed to the possibility of the diversity of existence. We refer to the subtle transition to the diversity of existence as the transformation of psychotherapy. From the life, dreams and sandplay of the epileptic adolescent, the abundant, psychotherapeutic, contradictory coniunctio is revealed.

Journal

• Archives of Sandplay Therapy

  Archives of Sandplay Therapy 30 (2), 15-25, 2017

  The Japan Association of Sandplay Therapy

Keywords

• diversity
• subtle transition
• unity of difference and unity

Details

• CRID: 1390001204475073280
• NII Article ID: 130006476220
• DOI: 10.11377/sandplay.30.2_15
• ISSN: 2186117X
• ISSN: 09163662
• Text Lang: ja
• Data Source:
  • JaLC
  • CiNii Articles
  • KAKEN
• Abstract License Flag: Disallowed