“HE SET OFF TO TRY HIS LUCK” - Excerpt from Fairy Tale Therapy
“HE SET OFF TO TRY HIS LUCK” - Excerpt from Fairy Tale Therapy

Summary/Abstract: When people start working with fairy tales in individual therapy or groups, they know very little about the tale itself – or indeed, about the relationship existing between them and the fairy tale. They only see a story which may attract or repel them with elemental force, but they are unable to say why. Perhaps it is because they recognise themselves in the fairy tale’s protagonist. Or perhaps the conflict between the characters is about something familiar to their own situation. Or maybe, the hero’s or heroine’s adversary reminds them of their own enemy. Why do they feel as if it was not the protagonist, but in fact themselves wandering in the thick dark forest with no clearings, no sign-posts, with the only hope that someone will finally take their hand and lead them out?

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