Trauma Und Kunst Trauma and Art Sexueller Missbrauch Und Depression Sexual Abuse and Depression

Sexual abuse and the thus incurred enforced secrecy turn a victim's values and sense of order upside down. This severe psychological trauma may lead to defensive reactions such as a split personality, disturbed maturation process and depression. This extraordinary book documents the therapeutic journey taken by Rut, a childhood victim of sexual abuse, from her suppressed childhood pain to her artistic expression of the trauma. Her pictorial work created during her psychotherapy enables her in her speechlessness and depression to recapture the story of her childhood, and, in dialogues with her psychotherapist, to integrate it into her everyday life. Rut's pictures and texts give direct evidence of the trauma of sexual abuse; they make it perceptible, arouse empathy, demonstrate its psychological consequences, and at the same time show a way to work through the trauma. In the second part of the book the two co-authors, both psychotherapists, discuss the creative process and pictorial work in an art-therapeutical and scientific setting, thus establishing a theoretical background. Unique and impressive, this book delineates part of Rut's psychological healing process, and is of great interest to professionals and students in psychology, psychotherapy, psychiatry and medicine, as well as art therapy, education, social work and spiritual counseling.Rut is the author of 'Trauma Und Kunst Trauma and Art Sexueller Missbrauch Und Depression Sexual Abuse and Depression', published 2004 under ISBN 9783805575560 and ISBN 3805575564.