Indigenously Based Trauma Treatment for Children

ABSTRACT

As analytical psychology increases its international presence in the wider world, encounters with conflict areas (war, natural disaster, torture, oppression) inevitably occur. Even in the United States, the severe traumatization of immigrant children is taking place. Analytical psychology is uniquely qualified to address this challenge. Fr. Paul Satkunayagam and Paul Hogan, author of Beautiful Nonsense, established the Butterfly Peace Garden (BPG) in Sri Lanka, generating an effective trauma treatment program for children brutalized by the thirty-year civil war. In Beautiful Nonsense, the author describes how he developed the healing process used at BPG, which is grounded in Jungian principles. This book about BPG’s program will resonate with Jungians worldwide.

KEY WORDS:

• analytical psychology
• children
• Jung
• Sri Lanka
• torture
• trauma treatment
• war

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John R. Van Eenwyk

THE REV. DR. JOHN R. VAN EENWYK received his PhD in religion and psychological studies from the University of Chicago. His teaching career began at Harvard University and continued at Northwestern University and at the C. G. Jung Institutes in Zürich and Chicago. Currently, he is a clinical instructor at the University of Washington School of Medicine and a senior analyst at the Pacific Northwest Society of Jungian Analysts. He maintains a private practice in Olympia, Washington. An ordained priest in the Episcopal Church, he is also the clinical director of the International Trauma Treatment Program (ITTP), which he founded in 1998 to train counselors in the treatment of complex trauma survivors, both in situ and in Olympia, where ITTP provides three months of training to practitioners from abroad. The author of Archetypes and Strange Attractors: The Chaotic World of Symbols and Clinical Chaos: The Strange Attractors of Childhood Trauma, Dr. Van Eenwyk publishes widely and lectures internationally on both Jungian psychology and the treatment of torture survivors.