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Wednesday, 24 December 2008 |
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 For some time now I’ve been interested in the interrelationship between aesthetics and the therapeutic dimensions of puppetry and puppetcraft. I am currently inclined to think away from puppetry as a genre for children and of aesthetics in terms of fixed notions of beauty (whatever those might be). Therapeutically, puppetry has been used primarily as a projective, dissociative tool with children. I’ve come across very little attention of it as a way of approaching transference (or counter-transference) with adult clients and am curious about the potential for this. I wonder if a heightened awareness, or at least a greater conscious focus on the aesthetic properties of puppetry when used during clinical practice might not take away some of the unconscious stresses associated with transference, and affect more enduring positive outcomes?
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