The book "Colors, symbols and vampires, Vol.2"

Presentation

After “Colors, symbols and vampires, Vol.1” the author presents new cases of metaphorical therapy that will take your breath away.

In volume 1 the author preferred the representation of brief cases in order to get the reader acquainted with the dense language of the unconscious.

Volume 2 defies the reader’s patience and willingness to dive deep in the intense and colorful productions of the unconscious mind. Metaphorical therapy is a new approach. The patient is descending to the depth of his unconscious mind in order to cure himself resolving unresolved issues of his life.

In the following the author presents several cases of metaphorical therapy. All transcripts are authorized by the patients. The author took notes during the sessions allowing the reader to take an insight in the course of metaphorical therapy. 

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Red Lines (part 7)

Presentation of the patient:

The patient was in cognitive-behavioral treatment when she came to the clinic. She complained about something holding her back. She was very shy and began to loosen up, when she joined a pentecostal church. The legalistic doctrine of her church kept her from reunions with her school colleges and family members, because she thought they were sinful. After one year of dating the church expected her to marry to prevent sin. Her sexuality transformed into a burden after a traumatic honeymoon. Her husband had not cut the umbilical bond with his mother, yet, causing nasty conflicts between the patient and her mother-in-law. When the patient started treatment with EMDR-J, an abuse memory with lasting consequences came up. The patient's treatment was very intense and complex. The author chose several sessions of different periods in order to give an insight in the patient's treatment.

Illustrative photograph by Jörg Garbers

Seventh session

The patient arrives at the session filled with anger and fear about returning to her hometown and she is afraid of settling there. She focused on her anger and visualizes a red colour on glass. There’s a dark colour draining and a sidewalk in the background. Somebody bursts the glass and a white colour appears. Suddenly she visualizes herself in a videogame with a gun in her hand. There are dead people. She is angry and wants to shoot. She runs over corpses in a truck. He hits a truck appearing in front of her and the truck explodes. She wants to leave, but returns to the same scene. There’s somebody in blue and blood. She puts the blood in a recipient and throws it at constructions leaving coagulated blood stains. Blood drains down the sewer. She visualizes herself surrounded by blood wanting to stir the blood and the trash. She isolates herself. The blood is drying and diminishing. The sideway and the street are clean. A truck retracts the human remains. She is afraid that the truck might also pick her up. The police, the ambulance and a helicopter arrive. She is in the middle of it. The cadavers turn into zombies. She doesn’t care about the zombies anymore. „Where does all this blood come from?“ There’s a tsunami of blood. The helicopter throws a rope. She can’t see the helicopter anymore. She turns her back to the scene. The ambulance is leaving and the patient feels at ease.

Conclusion:

The patient works in several metaphorical sessions through a abuse she suffered in childhood, her upbringing and socialization in church, her relationship with her boyfriend/husband, problems with her mother-in-law and land struggles with her neighbours. This seven sessions where chosen and transcribed by the author in order to give an impression of the intensity and  complexity of the patient’s feelings. Using metaphorical therapy as a tool, the patient was able to come to peace with her sex life, her marriage, her relationship with her mother-in-law and was able to return to her hometown without feeling bad about it.

Red Lines (part 6)

Presentation of the patient:

The patient was in cognitive-behavioral treatment when she came to the clinic. She complained about something holding her back. She was very shy and began to loosen up, when she joined a pentecostal church. The legalistic doctrine of her church kept her from reunions with her school colleges and family members, because she thought they were sinful. After one year of dating the church expected her to marry to prevent sin. Her sexuality transformed into a burden after a traumatic honeymoon. Her husband had not cut the umbilical bond with his mother, yet, causing nasty conflicts between the patient and her mother-in-law. When the patient started treatment with EMDR-J, an abuse memory with lasting consequences came up. The patient's treatment was very intense and complex. The author chose several sessions of different periods in order to give an insight in the patient's treatment.

Illustrative photograph by Jörg Garbers

Sixth session

The patient visualizes the parking lot shed and the street as carpet wrinkles. The wall is covered with flowers in unlively colours. She sees mountains and a wrinkled street. A lady sits on the wall dressed in a white dress and a black hat with yellow and pink flowers. A parade passes by. She visualizes a bordeaux-red house on the main street with white doors and windows. There’re yellow flowers and the image of a passion fruit. In the background stands a child with someone. The patient visualizes an open passion fruit showing her seeds. A grey fluid is dropping. There’s a shadow of a child and an adult. The grey goop is going somewhere. The black hat with the flowers is covering the whole person. The goop is covering the hat, falls into water and melts. There’s a yellow, black and grey shape. The grey vanishes. Black and yellow stripes remain. She expected a party, music and disco lights. Suddenly there’s a black ball and the yellow vanishes. The black ends. The flower hat reappears, the palm tree, the bordeaux house and she sees herself eating popcorn in a cinema seat. She leaves the cinema and goes to the shops. The scenery is white and pink. There’s a flower wallpaper and the colour green is filling the moment.

Red Lines (part 5)

Presentation of the patient:

The patient was in cognitive-behavioral treatment when she came to the clinic. She complained about something holding her back. She was very shy and began to loosen up, when she joined a pentecostal church. The legalistic doctrine of her church kept her from reunions with her school colleges and family members, because she thought they were sinful. After one year of dating the church expected her to marry to prevent sin. Her sexuality transformed into a burden after a traumatic honeymoon. Her husband had not cut the umbilical bond with his mother, yet, causing nasty conflicts between the patient and her mother-in-law. When the patient started treatment with EMDR-J, an abuse memory with lasting consequences came up. The patient's treatment was very intense and complex. The author chose several sessions of different periods in order to give an insight in the patient's treatment.

Illustrative photograph by Jörg Garbers

Fifth session 

The patient goes back to the neighbor triangle. She barely visualizes the house of her neighbor's daughter who spoke ill of her. She embarks in a blue car. They entered her land with laughter and insincerity. In front of the house next door parks a black car. Everything turns black. There's a swirl in the middle of the street. The ground swallows the neighbor's house and his daughter. She goes to the land straight ahead. The mud reaches the street. She wants to break down the wall with a hammer. It doesn't break easily. She looses her strength and goes to the middle and summons a higher force. Lightning approaches, but she doesn't want destruction. This neighbor is not her enemy. Lightning strikes sideways. She is writing bible citations on the wall. She doesn't want to be selfish, but she wants to keep an eye on the neighbors. They can't be trusted. She visualizes the triangle and a strong chain that needs to be broken. The chains are broken. She visualizes a flower on the parking lot wall. They are cemetery flowers.They're not beautiful and smell bad. Many people smell their scent. Now she visualizes orange-red flowers without a scent on only one side of the road.