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J D Oremland

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PubMed1998

Evelyn K. Oremland's contributions to the child life profession.

Evelyn K. Oremland, Ph.D., founded the first college-based Child Life Program on the West Coast. A pioneer in child life, in her twenty years at Mills College, Oakland, California, she developed a graduate curriculum to create the child life profession. Through her tireless activities in the international organization, Association for the Care of Children's Health (ACCH), and her co-chairing the Educational Committee of the Child Life Council, she helped establish standards for the child life specialist certification. Around the world, her teaching, research, and writing have helped protect the emotional development of sick children. She is best remembered as a devoted and beloved teacher. Graduates from her program now occupy many senior administrative positions in child life in the United States and in Europe.

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PubMed1998

Play, dreams, and creativity.

Viewed ontogenetically, creating, dreaming, and playing are a variant of object relatedness. It is suggested that in recapitulating the ontogenetic sequence, creating, dreaming, and playing each as a process initiates by de-differentiation to primal union, evolves into transitional functioning, and consummates in tertiary cognitive discourse. The products of the triad--the created object, the dream, and play--are viewed as synergistic psychodynamic composites of topical, personal, and arche-typical imperatives. Creating, dreaming, and playing are easily overburdened by events, becoming stereotypical and repetitious. Nowhere is this more clearly seen than in the play of chronically ill, hospitalized children. It is suggested that with development generally, playing is replaced by formalized games; only dreaming continues as the vestige of early creative abilities.

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Interpersonal resistance to change: a study of a fat woman who became thin.

The paper reports on the psychoanalytically-oriented psychotherapy of a very obese woman who, after a rather prolonged therapy, "decided" to reduce. During the weight loss process, significant reactions were noted from her son, daughter, brothers, sisters-in-law, customers, employees, husband, and therapist, which became crucial interferences with the continuing weight loss and specific resistances in the therapy. The identification of and the working through of these resistances significantly increased and consolidated her self-understanding. In that the response to major psychological changes was minimal as compared to the response to her physical change, it is hypothesized that physical change is more basically related to sense of self-continuity and hence more threatening to experience and observe.

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