Child Sex Trade & Organ Harvesting in LA
CHILD SEX TRADE @ ORGAN HARVESTING August 2015 © E. Hitchcock Scott, PhD This week I found the skin of a baseball with no insides, as if the innards had been ripped out by a malevolent hand. The crisscrossed red seams stand out boldly against the...
Sand Play and Synchronicity
SAND PLAY AND SYNCHRONICITY "Dora Kalff, one of the first theorists and practitioners to use miniature figurines, referred to her unique approach as, “western meditation.” She was most influenced by Carl Jung, Margaret Lowenfeld, and a Tibetan monk...
MASK MAKING for Transformation
MASK MAKING © E. Hitchcock Scott, PhD, 1995-2003. Since ancient times, before language, man made image. Marks were made on stones and the walls of caves by the earliest humans, we hypothesize, to establish absentia communication and personal or community...
The Mirage of Happiness: One Root of the Addiction Tree
Title of Painting: "JOY!" © E. Hitchcock Scott, PhD, 2015 Clients and patients arrive for addiction treatment seeking help, relief, and rescue. This is understandable, the pain and consequences of addiction are great. Even if a person has been...
Shadow Box Constructions for Art Therapy
- TOM - In the early 1900s, shadow boxes or object-boxes were used by artists affiliated with the Dadaism and Surrealist movements. Joseph Cornell (1904-1983) is the American artist most noted for this mode of expression, often using found items juxtaposed in an...
Haiku Poetry Therapy for Expression
HAIKU POETRY FOR EXPRESSION © 2002 E. Hitchcock Scott, PhD, LPCC917, ATR-BC Blending the Japanese tradition of poetry writing with western psychotherapy, this experiential is designed to honor the cycles, stages and experiences of life. Haiku poetry is a very...
Art & A Dying Husband
In October 2000, three days after our marriage, my husband received a bone marrow transplant. In many ways we were blessed, the strength that emerged from our union helped carry us through the gauntlet of chemotherapy and treatment. Randy, age 50 at our wedding, had...
Prayer Sticks and Meditation in Counseling
With great respect for the Indigenous Peoples, I have adapted a few of their spiritual practices for art therapy. I do not mean to make light of or to dishonor any sacred rights or beliefs. Prayer sticks are used in various religions, not only Native American, but...
Mandalas as a Way to Embrace the Dialectic
A common "cognitive error" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) is to see people, places, things, beliefs, and even the world in extremist terms. The worst despots, tyrants, and terrorists think in a polarized fashion. In overly simplified language, the despots think they...
Existentialism and Photography Therapy
In the early 1990's, I volunteered to photograph people who live on the streets for an amateur documentary. For this project, I used black and white photography, and hand colored the images. Within a few minutes after my arrival downtown, I was threatened, at first...