«Three, five, ten, fifteen, twenty?»
«No, not twenty, just five.»
«Were they formed at the same time?»
«No, they were added in the course of life.»
«Have a look at one of them and determine when it was «laid: days, weeks, months, years ago?»
«Five years ago, with the birth of a daughter.»
Likewise, it is possible to define all the aspects related to the formation of a particular element of the experience. It should be noted that patients do not always show interest in this. When one of the elements is determined, it becomes clear what it is about. The fate of such formations can be decided at one time. This woman decided that carrying the stones is not worth it, and she allowed them to roll away.
«Is it better without them?»
«A lot!»
«What are the liberated forces for?»
«For health.»
«Feel how it is happening.»
«I did.» The patient exhaled and opened her eyes. Those are all the issues about stones that remained to be solved.
In the chest there can be «layers, a kind of «loads of experiences, for example, in the form of layers of mica.
A number of formations can be built on the type of «nesting dolls.» Outside there is a layer of younger experiences; deeper one is older and «harder.» Outside, for example, there is rubber, and inside there is iron.
Communicating vessel. The syndrome of stone-tree
As a rule, in the process of work, it is found out that the formation inside the body specifically violates the holistic state of the patient. The syndrome caused by the concentration of sensations of heat-heaviness in one of the zones of the body is usually dual. It is accompanied by its second component the relative depletion of other areas of the body. In my opinion, this is a very significant observation.
In case of «overloaded head, it can be assumed, that the feet «shrunk.» There is always a kind of combination of «overfilled and «empty zones. The image of the communicating vessel is quite suitable for the observed phenomena. The «stone in the chest de-energizes hands, the «spider or «octopus in the stomach takes strength from the legs, which can even shake from weakness, and from the head, which ceases to think.
In the therapeutic phase the process takes place in reverse order: calm in the abdomen leads to the filling of the periphery. We will return to this phenomenon later. Now it is important to keep in mind that if the patient talks about the «stony head and «wooden or «watery legs, then we are not talking about two independent phenomena, but about two sides of the same phenomenon.
The axis of interacting sensations can be in all directions: «hump on the back means «squeezed chest on the front (back-front), head like a snowball means dwarfs legs (top-bottom), «a yokewith buckets on the right shoulder means «deprivation of the left thigh (diagonal interdependency).
Probably, the Chinese contemplate such phenomena as a violation of the balance between Yin and Yang. These syndromes are described as Biao-Li (surface-interior), Ge-Han (heat-cold), Shi Hu (fullness-emptiness), and treated them accordingly, by «heating the cold, «cooling the heat, «filling the emptiness, or «deflecting the fullness31.
The correlation between the verbal testimony of the patient and the indications of the drawing test is also rather interesting.
Libins test
The so-called ideographic test, which has been already mentioned above, is used in the work as well. This test was developed in Russia by V. V. Libin and A. V. Libin. A patient is given the task to draw a symbolic figure of a person of squares, circles, and triangles. The number of elements in the figure is 10. As a rule, this kind of a drawing is highly informative.
In connection with the objectives of the study, the test data are used in a special way: on the one hand, as a very convenient beginning of the work, on the other, as a verifier of information coming from the patient verbally. In general, the use of the test is aimed at the tasks of psychocatalysis of bodily sensations. Let me remind you once again that this is different from the authors expert use of the test data.
More than 1000 patients were examined. Many of them were examined in dynamics. It turned out that there is a clear correlation between what the patients report, referring to the sensations in the body, and what they draw.
The zone of the body, concentrating the sensations now, appears in the figure «marked as extension (a circle) or an additional element. The «de-energized zone is a narrowing (a triangle). The image clearly represents the distribution of internal sensations in the body. This is especially clear if the patient is offered to draw a figure, and then to calibrate the colors used on the scale of pleasantness, just as it is done in Lüschers test (my modification. A. E.). The most «unpleasant color shows the most problematic zone, the most «pleasant is a zone with positive potential. A series of drawings, respectively, is a series of problem states of the patient in varying degrees of activation. Double expressiveness geometric and color especially facilitates the identification of the locus of experiences. (In this edition the color solutions of patients drawings are not reproduced).
8
Bunin I. Village // Moscow: Pravda, 1988, p. 139.
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C. G. Jung. Psychology of transfer: Collection of articles. M.: Refl-Buk, K.: Wackler, 1997, p. 30. 10 Ibid., pp. 3435.
10
Ibid., pp. 3435.
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Kondrashenko, V. T., Donskoy D. I. General psychotherapy: Textbook. allowance-2nd ed. Meganewton.: Higher. SHK., 1997, p. 239.
12
Losev A. F. Essays on ancient symbolism and mythology. M.: Thought, 1993, p. 418.
13
See: Mindell E. Psychotherapy as a spiritual practice. M: Independent firm «Class», 1997, pp. 84 101.
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Jung, C. G. Synchronicity. Collector. Moscow: Refl-Buk, K.: Vakler, 1997, p. 13.
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A. B. Libin, Libin B. B. Features of the preferences of geometric forms in the constructive drawings (psychographic test of preferences TiGR). Methodological guidance. M.: Institute of psychology, Russian Academy of Sciences, 1994
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A. Mindell. Work with the dreaming body / / Moscow psychotherapeutic journal, 1,2, 1993.
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N.R.Kappe «Praise,» " Liberation.» Proton, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
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C. G. Jung. Archetype and symbol. Moscow: Renaissance, 1991, p. 30, 31.
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Jung, C. G. Synchronicity: The Collection Moscow: Refl-Buk, K.: Vakler, 1997.
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Mindell E. Psychotherapy as a spiritual practice. M.: Independent firm «Class», 1997.
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Nalimov V. V., Drogalina J. A. The reality of the unreal. Probabilistic model of the unconscious. Moscow: World of ideas, Akron, 1995
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Textbook on humanistic psychotherapy / Comp. M. papush - M.: Institute of General humanitarian research, 1995.
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Ibid., p. 251.
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Kandinsky V. About the spiritual in art. L., 1990 (1910).
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Jung, K. G. Psychology and alchemy, Moscow: Relf-Buk, K.: Wakler, 1997, p. 165
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CIT. by Kondratenko V. T., Donskoy D. I. Edict. op., p. 170.
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Reich V. the function of orgasm. S. Pb. M.: University book, 1997, p. 208.
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Short psychological dictionary / Comp. L. A. Karpenko; Under the General Ed. of A. B. Petrovsky, M. G. Yaroshevsky, Moscow: Politizdat, 1985, p. 407.
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Lowen A Physical dynamics of character structure. Moscow: PANI Company, 1996, p. 19.
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Archpriest Eugene Popov. Moral theology for the laity. St. Petersburg, 1901. Reprinted edition. Orthodox publishing house «Rule of Faith», 1993.
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Luvsan Gawaa. Traditional and modern aspects of Eastern reflexology, Moscow: Nauka, 1990, p. 228.