Redemption of the Shattered: A Teenager's Healing Journey Through Sandtray Therapy

by Bob Livingstone

Book Overview

Bob Livingstone describes in dream-like sequences his personal therapeutic experience while undergoing Sandtray Therapy to address the loss of his father during adolescence. He takes the reader... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1591130859
• ISBN13: 9781591130857
• Release Date: February 2002
• Publisher: Booklocker.com
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.6" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

A Story of Hope

Bob Livingstone offers the reader a very personal and powerful account of his story of bereavement. His journey reflects the complexity and multi-layered aspects of a central concern of the human condition: grief. Bob's struggle is our struggle, the search for meaning, integration, and resolution of loss in our lives. Bob teaches us the importance of self-exploration and how willingness to face our own demons can eventually lead to healing. This is a story of hope.

Redemption of the Shattered

A blend of the spiritual and the practical, Redemption of the Shattered is perfect for the lay person and clinician alike. Bob Livingstone skillfully illustrates how sandtray therapy can move teens from despair to hope and from loss to renewal. The book is a valuable resource for anyone guiding teens through the many challenges of life.

"Redemption of the Shattered"

As the mother of two teenage girls, this book is especially insightful because it is not the usual litanies regarding what teenagers experience or how to cope with their feelings. This book embodies the actual thoughts and feelings of a real teenager. It is never `sugarcoated'. A boy or girl can identify with Rob because he is `cool'; he's hanging out, doing drugs, cigarettes dangling from his lips. A teenager would think, hey, that could be me. Rob represents "everyman" We all experience some of these issues Rob has. How he works through them, for me is the key. If Rob the "everyman is helped, there is hope for me."

Finally, a Meaningful Process for Change

Bob Livingstone has provided a multi-level experience in the writing of Redemption of the Shattered. The intensive analysis of his own journey, the objective commentary of his experience, using the sand tray icons, and the very insightful suggested qurestions he asks at the end of each chapter, gives the reader an opportunity to integrate the material. I suggest that the book will open avenues for personal conflict resolution no matter what the age of the reader.Livingstone's odyssey helps us understand the terror and aloneness known to many of us and he does not hesitate to cast a spotlight on it. Through caring and careful thought provoking inquiry, Livingstone has provided the means of self discovery and a method for building a productive and meaningful life.

A Review of Redemtion of the Shattered - By Bob Livingstone

One of the very few thoughtful, insightful and accesible books on the subject of childhood trauma thru the eyes of a therapist with personal experienbce and the journey he guide his patient through. If you as a lay person or clinician need to read any book this year on the inner life of trouble teenagters, this is the one.Robert S. Badame, Ph.D. Clinical Psychologist