Abstract
Abstract Background Stories written under musical induction allow studying symbolic figures emerging during the psychotherapeutic process. During multimodal arts psychotherapy, based on a combination of active music therapy and the production of stories under musical induction, the archetype of the alter ego frequently appears in texts written by adolescents (Schiltz, 2008). This archetype shows its different facets during the psychotherapeutic process. Methods and research questions With the help of a qualitative study, based on the phenomenological content analysis of the TAT and the stories written under musical induction with N=52 students suffering from emotional (subgroup I) or conduct disorders (subgroup D), we answered the following questions: • Can we recognise in these symbols compensatory features regarding the person’s initial problems? • Do they gradually expand during the therapeutic progress, so that they reflect the integration of the hidden and split parts of the self? • What is generally their role in the adolescents’ search for identity, beyond the realm of the pathology? Results The results of the study opened psychotherapeutic perspectives for tertiary prevention in adolescence.
Highlights
Without admitting Jung’s assumption of the collective unconscious [1], many authors use the concept of archetype in the sense of collective representations that can be found in fairy tales and myths of every culture [2], but that are part of the individual unconscious in the sense of symbolic figures favouring the creation of coherent representations of oneself and the other.From the point of view of ethno psychoanalysis, the fact that the same archetypes can beIn this acceptation, the concept of the archetype can help creating meaning during the psychotherapeutic process and during the interpretation of research results [4,5].We present some reflections based on action research with adolescents suffering from emotional or conduct disorders
In the stories written under musical induction as well as in the protocols of the Thematic Apperception Test, the category of the alter ego unfolds its different facets [9,5]
In order to answer questions related to the existential significance of the archetype of the double, we present some data of a qualitative study of protocols of the TAT and the stories written under musical induction
Summary
Without admitting Jung’s assumption of the collective unconscious [1], many authors use the concept of archetype in the sense of collective representations that can be found in fairy tales and myths of every culture [2], but that are part of the individual unconscious in the sense of symbolic figures favouring the creation of coherent representations of oneself and the other.From the point of view of ethno psychoanalysis, the fact that the same archetypes can beIn this acceptation, the concept of the archetype can help creating meaning during the psychotherapeutic process and during the interpretation of research results [4,5].We present some reflections based on action research with adolescents suffering from emotional or conduct disorders. From the point of view of ethno psychoanalysis, the fact that the same archetypes can be. In this acceptation, the concept of the archetype can help creating meaning during the psychotherapeutic process and during the interpretation of research results [4,5]. We present some reflections based on action research with adolescents suffering from emotional or conduct disorders. Students who had been limiting to banal descriptions during the first sessions wrote almost mythical scenarios at the end of the year, which centred on love, birth and death, staging the grand characters of the collective imaginary world It was no longer about literary memories, but about an imaginary and cognitive elaboration of the personal existential situation and of the deep emotions linked to them
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