Working with Trauma: A Case Study

The case study presented in this article demonstrates how a middle-aged survivor of repeated extreme child abuse reintegrated a split between her memories of abuse and the feelings associated with those memories. The client's self-created therapeutic process of sculpting the early abuse scenes in clay and the impact of this work on others is described. The article further addresses balancing the need to communicate the horror of child abuse with protecting the audience from unnecessary traumatization.