ABSTRACT
When I first started to use sandplay with children, I was still doing diagnostic work for schools and clinics. So I included sandplay in the battery of material I used for assessment, much like the Rorschach. And I found it useful. But I discovered that I could not use it for evaluation with a child whom I was then going to see in therapy. When I did, the child had already had to “perform” for me. And I had already been set up as the judge of the child. So they could never be completely free in their subsequent therapeutic sandplay.
