ABSTRACT
This chapter provides art therapy groups for, the members of a psychosocial team of mental health professionals whose mission was to work with children and families to deal with the traumas of war. The art therapy group began late the first day, due to participants drifting in, one or two at a time, throughout the morning. The people of Gaza were suffering from severe anxiety, fear, and loss, and, as a result, neighbors, relatives, even people they did not know would continually seek their advice on subjects such as how to deal with their children’s panic attacks, bedwetting, pain, and depression. Gaza is the site of an ongoing collective trauma that will undoubtedly be carried for generations. Von Franz explains that sinking into a forest has to do with the psychosomatic realm of the psyche, which is associated with the bodily unconscious.
