ABSTRACT
This chapter describes Celeste’s therapy – following her infertility diagnosis. It includes her use of dreams, story, sand-tray, drawing, and poetry. The deeply moving therapeutic work gradually uncovers childhood trauma she finds it impossible to speak about. This includes: the drawing of a huge spider-crab in her womb; a series of grief poems; and the dream of a spider tattooed on her back that threatens to come alive and devour her. Celeste’s case study is supplemented with theoretical ideas around symbolism, and how integrating arts approaches can be so powerful. Ideas from neuroscience and Gestalt theory are applied.
