遊戯療法において「全体を捉える視点」を持つことの意義 : 選択性緘黙の事例と昔話の検討を通して

Abstract

Play therapy is exposed to the question of how it relates the psychic process of play therapy to external reality, such as behavior and states of patient's daily lives. However, we intend to understand psychotherapy from the viewpoint that divides the inside and outside. Actually, this previous question was made with that a viewpoint in mind. There is also a viewpoint of perceiving the whole for the viewpoint that divides the inside and outside. The former viewpoint is based on the idea that we should put an external event into a“retort” of psychotherapy and concentrate on those things, even if we feel that the external event is seemingly meaningless and we alone believe it is important. If we can truly do that, a mere external event becomes the whole. And any literal boundary between the inside and the outside is gone. In this paper, I consider the case of a boy with selective mutism and an old tale through these two viewpoints and succeed in concretely showing their difference. In my conclusion, I refer to the possibility of a viewpoint that perceives the whole.