Therapeutic puppet show

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Therapeutic puppetry is an offer for children, adolescents and adults. It can be assigned to the humanistic school (activation of self-healing powers, etc.). Another important root lies in the analytical psychology of CG Jung . It represents an offer within the psychotherapeutic approaches of psychodrama , art therapy and gestalt therapy .

The therapeutic puppet show is used in different areas of activity, for example in kindergartens, schools, in psychotherapy , sociotherapy , health prophylaxis , rehabilitation , elderly care. Possible contents are working on identification (creating an “inner” figure), playing with figures ( archetypes ) as a means of expressing deep mental movements and subjectively experienced everyday life through role reversal, conflict “exercise”, etc., with the aim of progressive development to stability and individuation .

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literature

  • Gudrun Gauda (Ed.): Puppet and mask play in therapy, Puppen & Masken, Frankfurt am Main, 2004, ISBN 978-3-935011-50-1