Migratory phenomenon and expressive sandwork in vulnerable populations.

In these times the migratory phenomenon is a crisis with alarming dimensions worldwide. Wars, human rights violations and violence within borders have pushed many people to seek asylum or have forced internal displacement. We approach this phenomenon taking into account the cultural complexes, understanding it as a process with multiple psychological, social and existential effects for those who suffer it.

Imagining with the body in analytical psychology. Movement as active imagination: an interdisciplinary perspective from philosophy and neuroscience.

This article explores how the body and imagination operate as pathways of knowledge through the use of Movement as Active Imagination in clinical practice. This method activates the transcendent function, thus encouraging new therapeutic responses. A philosophical perspective (Spinoza, Nietzsche, Merleau-Ponty) and some concepts from neuroscience (embodied cognition, somatic markers, image schema, mirror neurons, neuronal plasticity) will accompany us throughout this work, illustrated with a clinical vignette.