Background: Norway accepts many unaccompanied child refugees each year. This group
makes up one of the most vulnerable groups in terms of mental health. The Tree of Life is a …

Fairy tales are part of our culture and history. They have been with many of us since we were
children. During the last 20 years there has been an increasing interest in psychoanalytically …

Just a story? Narrative approaches to addiction and recovery Page 1 Drugs and Alcohol Today
• Volume 10 Issue 3 • September 2010 © Pier Professional 29 10.5042/daat.2010.0468 to focus …

Storytelling has a magical power to break the ice and to get people talking by stimulating
imaginations and triggering memories. For people with more advanced dementia it is …

Stories can comfort us as we realize our predicament is shared. Stories let us better see our
difficulties and conflicts when they are projected onto other characters. They suggest new …

At the age of 30, I was married and had two daughters. Since I had studied chemistry in
college and could not survive on poetry alone, I took a job in a company manufacturing …

Children of divorce experience a sense of loss of the intact family which had stabilized their
lives. Painful thoughts and feelings may result in defensive resistance of treatment …

Fairy tales, narratives and proverbs are cultural carriers of tradition, development pattern
and values. Even if they are the same over a long time, they gain their own new meaning in …

Ritual scholars note that rituals have powerful psychological, social and even biological
effects, but these findings have not yet been integrated into the practice of psychotherapy …