{"value"=>"<p> <span class=\"title\">A Theoretical Approach to Unresolved Childhood Grief in Dually Diagnosed Patients and How Dance Therapy Breaks Through the Resistance to Heal</span></p> <p>This thesis presents a theoretical approach for understanding unresolved childhood grief in dually diagnosed patients and how dance therapy breaks through the resistance to heal. Children's conception of death at various development stages is explored to determine consequence of unresolved grief from the death of a parent. The questions which arise include: are the psychological effects of parent loss pathological?; and does unresolved mourning relate to pathology? The population studied is dually diagnosed patients which includes substance abusers with a second diagnosis of depression and/or anxiety and early loss. This involves patients who did not receive any form of therapy prior to adulthood and who in turn chose substances to cope with grief. The existence of resistance through the body is evidence of the unconscious conflict to heal. The specific manifestations of bodily resistance are studied. Dance therapy is suggested as the optimum tool for healing this group of patients with early loss.</p>"}