Why rewrite a story heal the past? Today we will talk about the analysis of a film with a very deep psychological background: “Walt behind the scenes of Mary Poppins”. It tells a tragic story with a happy ending; the story of a girl who causes a traumatic event in her adult life.
Pamela Travers has written a series of books based on her childhood story and the main character has become a global icon: Mary Poppins, although this only happened when the works fell into the hands of Disney writers several years later, the characters reinvented and fled. , allowing Travers’s childhood trauma to heal.
- A beautiful story based on real facts and other additions.
- Which tells how rewriting a story can cure the past.
- After all.
- The history of our lives has a lot to do with who we are in the present.
- When there are emotional wounds that have tenido.
- No close and stay with us.
- We cannot leave suffering behind.
Rewriting the past offers the opportunity to experience and feel it differently; and repair it in a new way in memory.
Pamela Travers is the real name of the author of Mary Poppins’ tales, her childhood was marked by an alcoholic father and a mother who could not handle this family situation.
When things got really serious, one of her aunts showed up to help them, she suddenly showed up, with her umbrella and briefcase full of magic medicine for everyone, determined to help them in their chaotic lives.
Many years later, as an adult and becoming a writer, Pamela Travers (played masterfully by Emma Thomson) wrote eight stories about a character based on her aunt and the story of her childhood: Mary Poppins. The books were a publishing success. For twenty years, Walter Disney, the American tycoon of the Disney empire (Tom Hanks in the film), sued Travers trying to persuade her to give up her copyright to take Mary Poppins to the movies.
“Walt Backstage to Mary Poppins?” She tells how the reinterpretation of the book’s characters and the changes Disney writers made to the original work began to horrify the author, but ended up healing the open wound, the childhood trauma that accompanied her all her life.
Sometimes life prepares painful events, hard blows, that test our emotional intelligence, traumatic events in childhood are complicated because at this age the necessary tools have not yet been developed to regulate the high levels of emotional pain.
This pain will accompany you forever and enter your daily life without the calm of time, some situations of your adult life may be related, in some way, to this trauma and reopen the wounds over and over again.
People who work with language know that their main power is not only communication, language and words are also tools that can heal.
Language occurs at different levels of cognition and thought. Therapists use speech to work with the patient. Therapy offers the opportunity to tell a story again.
By rewriting and shaped a situation with words, a world of possibilities opens up: emotional encounters with the past and the prospect of a new future told in the present A review of values, strengths, weaknesses?Professionals work in therapy to generate the necessary changes in the narrative of the patient’s life. Language is a way to bring order to mental chaos.
Emotions change, as does the memory of facts, looking at our lives as if it were a story helps us find imaginary solutions that allow us to survive beyond obstacles.
“The path of stories allows everyone to find in it the desires that can make him happy. This is undoubtedly the function of stories. He who hasn’t learned to dream is incapable of transcending everyday life, is he?, in the long run, fit into the present and decrease in your future?Bruno Humbeek?