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Symbolization in Psychotherapy with Patients Who Are Disabled

1994; American Psychiatric Association; Volume: 48; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1994.48.2.231

2575-6559

Lisa Lewis, Karen G. Langer,

Transactional Analysis in Psychotherapy

Patients’ spontaneously generated symbols can be utilized in psychotherapy to help them reestablish a sense of meaning and purpose. Extremely negative life events, such as disabling injury or disease, shake the foundations of our lives and selves and sorely challenge our capacity to sustain a sense of self-worth. It is precisely at these times that our capacity to create and use symbols can be most restorative.