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Article

Working with Trauma: A Case Study

Pages 320-322
Published online: 28 Dec 2017
 
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The case study presented in this article demonstrates how a middle-aged survivor of repeated extreme child abuse reintegrated a split between her memories of abuse and the feelings associated with those memories. The client's self-created therapeutic process of sculpting the early abuse scenes in clay and the impact of this work on others is described. The article further addresses balancing the need to communicate the horror of child abuse with protecting the audience from unnecessary traumatization.

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Laurie Weiss

Laurie Weiss is a Teaching and Supervising Transactional Analyst (clinical, educational, and organizational) and author who maintains a limited psychotherapy and coaching practice in Littleton, Colorado. Her current focus is on making her materials available on the Internet at http://www.EmpowermentSystems.com and other Web sites. She can be reached at 506 West Davies Way, Littleton, CO 80120, U.S.A.; e-mail . Contact the author directly to obtain a copy of the DVD described in this article.