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INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER I: CREATION UNBORN
CHAPTER II: FLYING DOLPHINS
CHAPTER III: A SILENT WORLD
CHAPTER IV: GERMANS AT THE WATCHTOWER
CHAPTER V: SEX, DRUGS, AND ROCK’N ROLL
CHAPTER VI: THE FIRST LADY
Cetacean Magic is a fictional account of my actual experiences as the Psychological Consultant for the Dolphin – Assisted Therapy Project at the Dolphin Reef in Eilat, Israel. The facility is located in a natural lagoon on the Red Sea coast. It contained six Atlantic Bottlenose Dolphins, which served as the main attraction to the leisure complex that offered a swimming beach, pub, diving school, and educational programme about dolphins and the sea environment. The Dolphin Reef is neither a treatment facility nor a research institution. It functions mainly as a popular tourist attraction. Some of my impressions, as a clinical psychologist at the Reef, were published as the cover article in the popular journal Positive Health in March, 1999.
I am, indeed, fortunate to have had the opportunity to engage in this unique modality of treatment. Initially, my role was to monitor therapeutic activities, and to develop efficient professional procedures in the evaluation of referrals, determination of treatment, and liaison with other health professionals. Accordingly, much of my work was guided by the available professional literature about Dolphin – Assisted Therapy, the use of animals for therapeutic benefit, complementary approaches that encourage collusion with Nature and the environment, and conventional guidelines in medical and mental health.
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I wish to thank the staff at the Dolphin Reef for affording me the opportunity to contribute to their unique facility and for providing me with the impetus to explore new avenues in my practice as a clinical psychologist.
It is my hope that you will enjoy reading Cetacean Magic, which, albeit fictional, is never too far from the truth. Whereas the dolphins and the description of clinical procedures are factual, the remainder of the narrative does not reflect actual events, people, or facts but are purely imaginary.
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