Change. A group experience using the body and archetypes to recognize and prevent violence

TitleChange. A group experience using the body and archetypes to recognize and prevent violence
Publication TypeJournal Article
Year of Publication2012
AuthorsBonapace I, D’Aloisio C
JournalInterdisciplinary Journal of Family Studies
Volume17
Issue2
Pagination321-325
Date Published12/2012
PublisherPadova University Press
Place PublishedPadova, IT
ISSN Number2282-2011
Keywordsarchetypes, awareness, Body, empowerment, psychodrama
Abstract

Our project involves an intensive workshop for women that adopts a
psychological and body approach towards the individual and the group. The
reference model we use is a psychodynamic one with a special focus on Jungian’s
Depth psychology, the field of women’s psychology and on two specific authors:
Valcarenghi and Bolen. The myth and story of the Greek goddesses are used as
archetypes, namely patterns of existence and behavior. The work through the socalled
“virgin and vulnerable” goddesses, has been the key to explore women’s
‘forms’ and roles. These aspects highlight different feminine skills with a specific
focus on those aspects related to conflict within relationships. The intervention
implies adopting techniques like psychodrama, dance-movement-therapy and Self-
Bioenergetics-Analysys in a costant integration of body and mind.

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