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Psyche
& Soma Sandplay
Therapy |
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Kate Amatruda LMFT, CST-T
Kate Amatruda LMFT, CST-T
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Psyche
& Soma Sandplay
Therapy |
This course meets the qualifications for 15 hours of continuing education training
This groundbreaking new work will introduce the reader to the mysterious world of the mind/body connection. We will look at the psychotherapy treatment of two children and two adults who had physical illnesses, and begin to see how play therapy and sandplay therapy provide a keyhole through which we can get a glimpse into the inner world of healing. We will explore how the therapeutic power of play helps the client to cope with the stress and pain of illness.
"As
far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to light
a candle in the darkness of mere being." |
Meet:
Peter - at three and one-half years old, he was haunted by an illness which neither he (nor the therapist) knew that he had. Yet his symbolic play clearly expressed imagery specific to his disease; a 'cellular consciousness". How could that be?
Tony - seven years old, his sandplay therapy treatment occurred in the pediatric oncology unit of a hospital. We met only four times over the course of 22 days. When "Jumping Mouse" jumped, what did he see?
Lori - she came to therapy only five times...did anything happen? What did it mean that she had broken a bone the day before her first session? And what did it symbolize to her when the dinosaurs created the jewels?
Marianna- hoping not to die, she worked very hard in her therapy. Along the way she created a place in which triangles intersected. She was not cured...was she healed?
This book and course will ask more questions than it answers as we explore the mysterious and magical way in which cells seem to communicate through imagery. Along the way, we will get glimpses into a world that is liminal and luminous; that we will never fully comprehend.
We will explore how play therapy and sandplay work, why the elements are important to forging the mind/body connection and the concept of 'somatopsychics' in which the soma, or body, communicates cellular knowledge to the psyche. We will touch upon the mystery of the 'liminal world', the threshold between body and psyche. Along the way, we will discover the healing power of symbols, and find out about horses, cranes, butterflies, Kuan Yin, bridges, quartz, mermaids, triangles, light, etc. We will take a peek into the symbols of shamanism, Tibetan chakras, and the Medicine Wheel. Join us and wonder at the mystery of the psyche and the body.
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Objectives Upon Completion of this course the participant will 1. Be able to recognize how the therapeutic power of play helps the client to cope with the stress and pain of illness. 2. Understand how play therapy (including sandplay and art) can open the door to the 'liminal world'. 3. Be able to identify areas of clinical and social work intervention relevant to doing play therapy and sandplay therapy in a hospital setting. 4. Know when play therapy and sandplay therapy are contraindicated. 5. Have an understanding of how healing symbols arise out of play. 6. Be cognizant of our own pain and countertransference as we do play therapy, sandplay therapy and psychotherapy with clients who are ill. 7. Understand the importance of creating a safe, contained therapeutic space. |
This
course meets the qualifications for 15 hours of
continuing education training
maintains responsibility for the program. |
Now available as an e-book!
(go to frequently asked questions to see
how this works)
Table of Contents
The World Where Worlds Meet
Peter-The Haunted Boy
Tony-Glimpsing Sacred Mountain
Lori-The Sacred Journey
Marianna-Where Triangles Intersect
Reflections on the Mystery
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We do adhere to the American Psychological Association's Ethical Principles of Psychologists. Our courses are carefully screened by the Planning Committee to adhere to APA standards. We also require authors who compose Internet courses specifically for us follow APA ethical standards. Many of our courses contain case material, and may use the methods of qualitative research and analysis, in-depth interviews and ethnographic studies. The psychotherapeutic techniques depicted may include play therapy, sandplay therapy, dream analysis, drawing analysis, client and therapist self-report, etc. The materials presented may be considered non-traditional and may be controversial, and may not have widespread endorsement within the profession. www.psychceu.com maintains responsibility for the program and its content. |
888-777-3773
American
Psychological Association to sponsor continuing 
The Association for Play Therapy (#02-117) 
Katie
Amatruda, PsyD, MFT, CST-T, BCETS, is
a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, Board Certified Expert
in Traumatic Stress - Diplomat, American Academy of Experts in
Traumatic Stress, and a teaching member of the International
Society for Sandplay Therapy. She is a Disaster Service Mental
Health volunteer with the Red Cross, and has responded to the
Hurricane Katrina disaster, as well as to local fires and floods
with the Disaster Action Team. She went to Sri Lanka with the
Association for Play Therapy and OperationUSA. She has lectured
internationally and teaches in the Extended Education departments
at U.C. Berkeley and Sonoma State University. She is the author
of A Field Guide to Disaster Mental Health: Providing Psychological
First Aid, HIV: The Storm, Psyche & Soma, Trauma,
Terror and Treatment, and Painted Ponies: Bipolar Disorder
in Children, Adolescents and Adults. Her work with trauma
is featured in the DVD Trauma Treatment - September 11 - One
Year Later, an hour interview with Frontiers.TV in Brooklyn,
NY, and her work with children with cancer is shown in
the DVD Sandplay Therapy and the Liminal World. She is
the co-author of Sandplay, The Sacred Healing: A Guide to
Symbolic Process, Reweaving the Web: The Treatment of
Substance Abuse, The Safe Harbor Ethics Series and The
Witch and The Queen. She practices in Northern California.
