Psychotherapeutic doll with a photographic reproduction for it's face

Abstract

A psychotherapeutic aid in the form of a doll, comprising of a non-gender, non-racially specific soft plush body, head, arms, and legs, which are assembled by sewing all pattern pieces into a one piece, hooded jump suit with mitten style hands, and booty style feet along with a photographic reproduction of a human face, of any age, gender, race, and the photographic reproduction of a human face is integrally assembled as the doll's face, is disclosed.

What is claimed:  
     
         1 ) A psychotherapeutic doll with a body that comprises a head, and a torso with two attached arms that have mitten style hands, and two attached legs with booty style feet that have toes pointed outward from the body—all limbs are postured to reflect the shape of a human body, and the face of the psychotherapeutic doll is made from a solid color fabric and is permanently assembled into the body head of the psychotherapeutic doll, whereby creating a surface to permanently affix a digital facial image printed on to commercially available fabric, the fabric printing process is a well known method, and 
 A) the psychotherapeutic doll as described in  claim 1  is constructed into a one piece hooded jump suit by sewing together all of the fabric pattern pieces  5 A through  5 J (see the attached drawing) 
 1) the jumpsuit back bottom section  5 E is substantially gathered across the seam where it is sewn together with jumpsuit back top section  5 D  
 2) the jumpsuit arm section  5 H is darted at the elbow seam to create an arm that bends in toward the torso.  
 3) the jumpsuit foot top  5 G when sewn together with the foot portion of  5 E creates the toe of the foot to point out away from the body, replicating the posture of a human foot  
 
 B) the psychotherapeutic doll as described in  claim 1  has a permanently affixed printed fabric face, that is familiar to the user, and is applied to the doll by a heat ironing process, which is well known,  
 whereby creating a psychotherapeutic doll that has a realistic, huggable, human form that is comforting when held by the user.  
 
     
     
         2 ) The psychotherapeutic doll is stuffed with a synthetic fiber batting that is inserted into the head, neck, hands, arms, legs, posterior, and torso cavities of the psychotherapeutic doll body along with pouches of synthetic pellets placed in the body cavity, wrists, head, and ankles allowing the psychotherapeutic doll body to have substantial weight, the psychotherapeutic doll body is made to a variety of lengths to suit the users needs whereby giving a realistic feel of a human being to the user in the form of a doll.  
     
     
         3 ) The psychotherapeutic doll is a tangible interactive tool that facilitates emotional healing and provides comfort and security to the user who is contending with emotional trauma of any degree and type pertaining to one's self as well as that of a loved one and is intended to be used with the aid of professional therapists, counselors, and clergy in one on one counseling session, group counseling sessions, as well as being used independently by the user as a self help device.