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The author uses the expressive materials of a Chinese patient—sandpictures and drawings—produced during a depressive episode to associate with corresponding ancient Chinese hieroglyphs. Using her methodology of associating the expressive materials with the hieroglyphs, she found eight hieroglyphs that appeared sequentially during the process of psychological transformation. She discusses the meaning of the hieroglyphs in relation to the state of the psyche during the transformative process. Based on this case, she suggests that ancient Chinese hieroglyphs can be used as an archetypal symbolic language of the Self in clinical applications among populations familiar with Chinese written characters.
Adelina Wei-Kwan Wong (Tue,) studied this question.