**4.2 Jungian approach to imagery and fairy tales**

Using a music psychotherapy approach such as GIM to help bring out issues about motherhood, we can delve even deeper to derive understandings from a Jungian standpoint. As Ventre notes, GIM can serve an important role in addressing the archetype of the mother by facing the "dark side of the external and internal feminine forces in her life" [78], providing case material of transformation toward holistic acceptance and power within the individuation process. Fundamentally, the Snow White fairy tale is about change, as are many myths and fairy tales containing archetypal material, as seen in the way that the client represents their journey via this fairy tale. Along with the trials and changes met in everyday life, this tracks inner growth and development and is also closely linked to the Hero's journey [46, 47]. Therefore, the client-hero needs to find new skills and coping strategies, both internally and externally in the real world, as they confront unfamiliar scenarios and high levels of anxiety as they occur [47].

In the transition to motherhood, heroic change is needed to meet the extensive needs of motherhood. This plays out for the current client in being catapulted into an unexpected journey especially shown by sensations of moving up and down, exploring the psyche as the client encounters trials and tribulations within the imagery process and relates them to motherhood. The dual image of the benevolent Woodcutter as a Guide within her heroic journey emerges within this current research case study as an insight not previously gained from the earlier case report [1].

## **4.3 Innovative research approach**

In reframing this clinical report into a unique research case study, a systematic methodology has been developed involving a pattern-matching approach. In doing so, it provides increased insights forming evidence to inform clinical practice within a Jungian theoretical framework. This occurred by reviewing an intrinsic case with unique characteristics, as informed by the work of Stake, Wolf, and Yin [92, 96, 97]. Using this methodology, new understandings came to light, for example, connections between the role of the benevolent woodcutter re the guide figure. Merging a Jungian fairy tale approach interpretation [63, 64] with a systematic research methodology was sustainable in deriving new knowledge at a deeper level than had been attained in a previous case report [1].

This chapter has made a clear delineation between a clinical case report and a research case study, following on from the work of Alpi and Evans [93]. In doing so, the ad hoc nature of interpretation has been addressed within the application of well-delineated patterns (in this case the Snow White fairy tale [68]). Not only this, but in creating understanding of the nature and role of the clinical case report versus the research case study has been applied across the significant time gap between the publication of the initial case report and the current research case study. These improved understandings form a fresh contribution to methodology development, and the process outlined in this paper can be further applied to other fairy tales and archetypal stories as may appear in imagery within the clinical context.

## **4.4 Understanding the work of matrescence**

In working our way through this intrinsic case with unique characteristics in the form of a research case study, we are faced with an even deeper and broader
