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A Project Demonstrating Excellence submitted to The Graduate School of the Union Institute and Universities. In partial fulfillment of the requirements for the
Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in General Psychology, September 1995
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http://www.processwork.org/files/Finalprojects/Camastral_S_September_1995.pdf
Abstract
This project Demonstrating excellence "The constant itch to self development: a personal journey with atopic dermatitis, is a multi-method autobiography that shows how the psychological pattern behind my chronic skin symptom emerges in dreams relationships and different areas of my life. This longitudinal in depth study of my own case is based on the paradigm of Process Work which has a basic belief that disturbances such as body symptoms contain their own solution and potential healing. With four interviews, several described and transcribed therapy sessions, dreams and descriptions of inner works, journal entries as well as creative writing and an exercise I show how I use my symptoms as part of my personal growth. Social and cultural attitudes influence the way we deal with our experiences. My body symptoms and their underlying energies are a constant driving force in shedding old skin of my identity and its internalized societal expectations.
Abstract
This project Demonstrating excellence "The constant itch to self development: a personal journey with atopic dermatitis, is a multi-method autobiography that shows how the psychological pattern behind my chronic skin symptom emerges in dreams relationships and different areas of my life. This longitudinal in depth study of my own case is based on the paradigm of Process Work which has a basic belief that disturbances such as body symptoms contain their own solution and potential healing. With four interviews, several described and transcribed therapy sessions, dreams and descriptions of inner works, journal entries as well as creative writing and an exercise I show how I use my symptoms as part of my personal growth. Social and cultural attitudes influence the way we deal with our experiences. My body symptoms and their underlying energies are a constant driving force in shedding old skin of my identity and its internalized societal expectations.