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Diploma in Wholistic Psychotherapy + Certificate in Active Sandplay and Facilitation
Incorporating material used in the Graduate Diploma in Transpersonal Psychotherapy
Vanishing Twin Syndrome - True Stories
For the other six articles: Medical - Symptoms - Who remembers? - Therapy - One example - Bibiography
True stories
One sandplay client works steadily yet without much sense of achievement. She combines this with a constant and eager search for a man, but cannot form intimate or lasting bonds. She created a diagonal axis between these two with an almond-shaped mandorla marked in the sand.
The pieces, in order of placement, are a glass ball enclosing a skull on the axis of the mandorla closest to the spiritual quadrant; a fossil near right, and between them clasped hands. A little goanna was placed on the fossil, which she described as “soft and uncertain, longing.” The cross points to the skull.
In the session she gradually regressed until she remembered that when she was 2 she had been told she had been a twin, but that the other had died well before her birth. She knew this had been a boy. The session became emotional when she identified with the goanna and the fossil, helplessly holding on to the departed brother and feeling a dead fossil without him. Her inner ‘centre' lay in the white hands, clasping onto the male who had gone.
Extract from John James, Sandplay as a diagnostic tool, written 2003.
George would bring all his relationships to a quick end because, though he could not have told himself why, he could not bear the fear they would abandon him if they got too close.
Mary's anorexia was linked to her foetal guilt that her twin had died because she had 'stolen' all the food.
Bill had spent a lifetime searching for a twin-soul to merge with until he discovered he had had a twin of the opposite sex. This helped to explain why he had passionately longed to be a girl and had thought of becoming a transvestite.
Extract from John James Notes to Transformation, written in 1994
Identical male twins that survived I will call George and Sam. George was run by two fundamental drives that cancelled each other out. One was the romantic dreamer, the other the practical fixer. They could have worked together, but in his case the dreamer screwed up the practical, while the practical undermined every dream.
It turned out that the two souls had made an ‘arrangement' in the womb so that Sam would stay and not depart. George's soul was the dreaming soul, Sam's the practical. George offered to do everything to keep Sam around. The outcome in later life was that Sam would step back to let George attempt the practical things and then feel annoyed when he did, while George felt impelled to solve problems when his nature was urging him to just relax and fantasize. Both boys were filled with a resentment that they could not define. After the process George found that these two sides of his ‘soul-nature' worked in greater harmony, without the uncomfortableness that had lain between them, and gradually his life changed in tune with that.
The very night after the process Sam, who had not been in contact for the past six years, telephoned George from the States. He just had to make contact. The subtle telephone of the Field. If any of this seems far-fetched, consider that George had two women in his life. The first was a practical down-to-earth person, while the second was dreamy and impractical. The first longed to help people while the second needed to be helped. Are these not core aspects of the two souls that were so confounded in the womb?
Extract from John James The Great Field, written in 2004.
In a session Michael drew two hearts touching. The main feeling was that there was an enormous sense of emptiness from the womb, and in being born he felt that there was nothing to be born in to. He reached for a pillow and hugged it tightly, gripping it with both hands. While doing this a "horrible fear overcame me". He could not at the time recall what it was about, but felt it had something to do with the pillow. Feeling its inadequacy as something to be loved so strongly "I threw it away". At that precise moment he experienced an overwhelming realization that he had missed out on knowing something very precious.
One woman had no purpose in life, and needed others to make decisions for her.. She would often panic in large spaces when felt she did not know where she was going, yet she was unable to retrace her steps in order to find out where she had been. In relationships she desired to be enfolded by the other, yet found they would let her down. Her deepest belief was that she had to run her life on her own. Afterwards she found that she was no longer entangled with her boyfriend, and was setting stronger boundaries than before.
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