Reflection On 2nd Online Group Supervision (Part 3)
SUPERHEROES
Why does the client choose to use super heroes?
Can it be he/she has been expose to social culture, from the videos, TV programmes – Power Rangers, Ultraman Tiga, Spiderman, Superman and many more. Sometimes the client will stick to one, sometimes they keep on changing – there is a different in psychology of heroes. It is not always bed of roses to play super heroes, as super heroes usually have got a lot of baggage, the 1st thing is to dealing with anything that have powerful means dealing with the powerlessness. If the main character happens to be powerful which can means that this person is feeling powerless, in his real situation or in reality experiencing powerless.
Superheroes are the symbols in child play, representing emotional areas, psychological too, he can be a very powerful Power Ranger metaphorically but he just a baby Power Ranger, so don’t assume that the Power Ranger is about other things that goes in that child projected into the object of the character. Therefore it is useful to know the symbolic meaning or the potentially social culture (google later to learn more).
How can we help the child to change into the capacity to transform change to an area that the child came from and familiar with. Use the metaphor and terminology that the child is familiar with, then when we use it, it will be in therapeutic intention, so when we help to transform he won’t just transform but thinking to transform into role, whereby we are able to extend our role play into a helper, a mentor, a guide like the Sifu, the Master. In this role, we make our self available to provide some help in the child struggling with the monster. So that he will able to respond in role in the character, rather than only having the power to kill everybody or anybody, unable to reach out for help and unable to see advice. We in our role not only as the mentor figure but also as a therapist starting to sow the seed of potential healing to his character and also to him indirectly.
After reading the above, I just feel that there are still a lot to learn being a real therapist. I hope that I can join all of you in the field work one day :-)
ReplyDeleteYou are most welcome, for your info Terry was my 1st client and from Terry I have learned alot.
ReplyDeleteThanks Melinda for your reflections from supervision, I am sure that for those who reads your posting will feel the inspiration and encouragement in wanting to delve into the therapeutic work themselves not only in the service of the people they intend to help but also for what it can contribute to our own healing as therapists.
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