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cutaneous system
keloid/scar tissue
psychospiritual approaches
metaphors and correlations
Persons predisposed to keloids can produce a lesion resulting in keloid growth as a consequence of psychic experiences that are traumatic and wounding. The broad spectrum of scarification ceremonies illuminates the keloid archetype. For primitive peoples, keloids carried the numinosity intrinsic to events of initiation (accompanied by emotional stress and pain) and are a living symbol of the transformation process.
(Rothenberg, 1986, p. 141-154)
therapies
affirmation:
(Skin) I lovingly protect myself with thoughts of joy and peace. The past is forgiven and forgotten. I am free in this moment. (Hay, 1984, p. 183)
The keloid is aberrant, and the aberrant is sacred. (Rothenberg, 1986, p. 152)
theotherapy:
(skin problems) Dionysus, Heracles, Orestes, Pelops (Lemesurier, p. 115)
psychotherapy:
Whatever happens to the skin corresponds to an inner process. The diverse functions of the skin (protection, contact, expression, excretion, respiration, temperature regulation, sexuality, etc.) are associated with a common theme that alternates between the two poles of separation and contact. Something is bursting through our limits, or trying to armor an inner sensitivity. Questions to ask in the event of skin problems:
» What is it that is getting under my skin? What is trying to burst through barriers?
» How easy/difficult is it to make contact with other people? Do I desire intimacy?
» Have I condemned myself to solitary confinement? What is useful about this?
(Dethlefsen, p. 162, 170)
process paradigm: (experientially oriented)
What is the symptom preventing me from doing? What is the symptom making me do? (see process interview: cutaneous system)
related materia medica listings:
the shadow and physical symptoms
skin metaphors and correlations
converting a signal to a symptom
affirmations: guidelines and precautions
theotherapy
process paradigm
footnotes