{"id":3241,"date":"2021-12-25T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-12-25T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/?p=3241"},"modified":"2020-03-12T19:29:39","modified_gmt":"2020-03-12T19:29:39","slug":"story-the-pruned-tree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/25\/3241\/","title":{"rendered":"The Pruned Tree"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/sycamore-1194797_1920-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3423\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/sycamore-1194797_1920-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/sycamore-1194797_1920-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/sycamore-1194797_1920-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/sycamore-1194797_1920-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/sycamore-1194797_1920.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The case study \u201cThe Pruned Tree\u201d investigates how people can come to terms with losing their voice. The story can however also be used in other situations such as amputations and surgical interventions of all kinds, in particular mastectomies, the operative removal of sexual organs and sterilisation. In these cases the metaphor expresses the idea that the removal of the body parts which symbolise fertility (or the loss of their functionality) furthers goals aligned with fertility. Fertility is reframed as innovative energy and creativity, and the parts of the personality associated with the body part are asked to consent to the operation and to reconcile themselves with the consenting personality parts.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I recently met a Russian man in hospital who had\nundergone a laryngectomy. His son had painted him a picture of a tree bearing\nred apples, with the following caption in big letter; \u201cThe tree was pruned, and\nnow it bears more fruit than ever. Dear father, we loved your voice. But we\nlove you much more!\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The case study \u201cThe Pruned Tree\u201d investigates how people can come to terms with losing their voice. The story can however also be used in other situations such as amputations and surgical interventions of all kinds, in particular mastectomies, the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/25\/3241\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3241"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3669,"href":"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3241\/revisions\/3669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}