Monday, September 21, 2009

Curing by Fairy Tales.

What is a fairy tale? Fictional legends and stories about magical kingdoms, adventures and mysteries? In some way, yes. But in fact, tales can do much more to us, their potential is enormous: you may make curious your child, to make him sleep at night, to calm down him and much more. Fairy tales were the object of knowledge of philosophers and poets.
But recently, the tales took a special role in psychologists’ research. There is a new psychological technique – fairy tale therapy, the basis of which is to work with fairy tales . As every other psychotherapy, fairy tale therapy helps first to know yourself. Also, thanks to this therapy, the child may stop thinking about the current problems and look at what is happening from the outside, and in that way, help himself. The focus is on plot structure psychological processes, or as they say – on stories which happen to the soul - is the basis of psychotherapy. All these stories are very typical. In other words, they are suitable for all human beings without exception. This therapy comes from the fact that the unconscious manifests itself in certain schemes, which are transmitted from mother to child in the form of fairy tales and the number of schemes rather limited and knowable. Through the tales, it is best to explore archetypes. The fact is that most of the tales of any nation are very similar. Fairy tale therapy - a particular form of depth psychotherapy, but at the same time, it is quite possible to apply for the "current" and "easy" tasks. Influencing at children with fairy tales, that is fairy tale therapy, considered the most ancient psychological method, which includes psychology.
All knowledge, all information that had our ancestors about the world around them - all of it is described in fairy tales and legends. Only in this way experience passed over from father to son. Nowadays, archetypes and information from these legends as a separate branch of psychology - which is based on fairy tales. Some people believe that fairy tales therapy applies only to work with children. Yes, this is so. But the age range covered by fairy tales therapy not limited to - talk, listen and think of fairy tales can not only children but adults and even old people. Fairy tales therapy associated with "child" method because it is addressed to the pure and responsive child in all of us.

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