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<\/p>\nThe doll is made of natural materials, pleasant for tactile contact, flexible. It can be used in the process of counseling for bodily reactions to emotional upheavals, for diagnosing and correcting a child. It is good to use as a subject of transfer and modeling.
Here is an example of working with Walter Hall puppets
Dynamics. Jenny, an impulsive, strong girl, still did not lose hope that her father, who in her eyes had ideal features, would come to Germany, or take her to the USA (he called her about twice a year).
After returning to Germany, Jenny very slowly realized the fact of parting with her father, the loss of her homeland and the change of language. At first, it was difficult for her at school, because she barely spoke German. At first, the girl reacted ambivalently to her mother’s new partner. Then Jenny’s attitude towards him deteriorated, not the least of which was played by Armin’s rigid authoritarian ideas about parenting. After the birth of a brother, strong jealousy joined the feeling of hostility.
Jenny has developed pseudo-autonomy for herself: she often stays with neighbors, as if she didn’t need her family. The girl often offended her mother, rejected her, or made unreasonably high demands on her, only to then retire insultedly if these demands were not met. The mother felt depressed and frustrated, not knowing how to deal with her daughter, from which Jenny concluded that the mother, like Armin, loved her little brother more than her.
After several conversations with the family and watching Jenny play, I decided to use hand puppet psychodrama play to advance the therapeutic work, as Jenny’s oppositional behavior made it increasingly difficult to talk to the family. Mother and Jenny agreed, and they also didn’t mind my co-worker, as there were many roles to play.
The dramatization was prepared by my mother and my colleague, without Jenny. In preparation, the women discussed the following hypotheses:
– Jenny idealizes her father;
– Jenny, disillusioned with her father and unable to cope with anxiety because of her ambivalent attitude towards him, resorts to splitting. She projects the “bad” part of her father’s image and her “bad” attitude towards him onto her mother and Armin;
– Jenny defends her regressive desires by developing pseudo-autonomy.
– Then they developed the script, guided by the following questions:
– What periods of life should we consider and what is their main content?
– What figures are suitable for staging and what duplicating figures can be used?
Last but not least, this preparation served to reduce the mother’s state of insecurity.
Dramatization To begin with, we once again explain to Jenny our intention: we want to use the game with dolls to find the cause of the difficult situation in the house.
Instead of answering, Jenny complains of back pain, lies down on the carpet and, with a look of boredom on her face, begins to play with a teddy dog. The mother is clearly annoyed by this.
We ignore Jenny’s behavior, thank her for agreeing, and think aloud, \u201cWhere could Jenny’s apartment and room be in this room? Where is America? And how can we make a sea between them – maybe with this blue handkerchief?
Jenny jumps up as if electrified, back pain forgotten. The girl tells us where the apartment is located, where is America, agrees to depict the sea separating Germany and America with a blue handkerchief, and helps us lay it out on the floor.
With the help of foam seats and handkerchiefs, Jenny and my mother are laying out the kitchen, and my colleague is building my father’s house in America.
Following this, Jenny helps choose dolls for the characters in our story:
Mother – Queen, father – King, Jenny – Princess, Armin – Robber, Peter – Zeppl [Doll included in the Casper Theater set, Casper’s friend. \u2014 Note. translator.].
The girl spontaneously takes also a hare doll, which should be her favorite toy, first in America, and then in Germany.
We decide that Mother will only take on the role of Queen and Jenny will only take on the role of Princess. My colleague takes on the roles of Jenny’s father, stepfather and brother.
Jenny agrees that I play the hare, thus clarifying the question of who will be the double. I am directing.
First scene (scenes reproduced in very compressed form)
Queen, Princess, King and Hare in America. (Participants in the performance put their puppets on their hands). To warm up, we start with the breakfast scene, which ends with the mother (at the direction of the director) saying, \u201cThe king has been discharged from the army. We feel bad here, it’s better in Germany! In addition, I have nostalgia, I want to fly back to Germany.\u201d
The princess agrees. Hare (double) expresses his doubts aloud: he does not know where this Germany is and what it is like to live there, besides, he can only speak English.
The King does not like all this, but the Queen says: “You can come to us as soon as we have an apartment.” Jenny, when I ask if this was the case, clarifies that the King looked sad, and my colleague plays the role of the King accordingly.
Director’s instructions: “All the actors now lie down as if they are sleeping, then the alarm clock will ring and the day of departure will come.”<\/p>\n
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