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Volume 167 - Issue 11

The bouncing werewolf

Author:  Peter L Beagley

Med J Aust 1997; 167 (11): 644.
Published online: 8 December 1997
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A five-year-old boy drew this "monster". After his father and grandmother (and the family dog) died within a 12-month period, the child made many drawings of monsters, which his mother thought was not "normal". His mother, herself depressed, brought him to an art therapist when he began "hitting himself on the head". During art therapy sessions, the monster drawings were accepted and freely talked about. The self-injurious behaviour stopped after the boy's third individual session.


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  • Peter L Beagley
  • 1. Sydney, NSW.

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