ABSTRACT

Sandplay Wisdom provides key concepts for understanding and using sandplay therapy effectively, distilling insight from more than four decades of experience. Rie Rogers Mitchell and Harriet S. Friedman provide both core principles and hard-won practical tips to deepen understanding of sandplay therapy for both experienced and novice practitioners.

The principles presented provide key insight into many important therapeutic dimensions, including childhood trauma, archetypal life stages, age and gender issues, transference and countertransference, as well as sandplay with both adults and children. The book is illustrated with case material and images from real sessions throughout and provides invaluable guidance on working with clients in a vast range of contexts.

This important book will be essential reading for all sandplay therapists in practice and in training. It will also be of great interest to practitioners, academics and scholars of play and arts therapies.

chapter Chapter 1|3 pages

What is sandplay?

chapter Chapter 2|11 pages

How does sandplay heal?

chapter Chapter 3|29 pages

Archetypal life stages

chapter Chapter 4|15 pages

Childhood loss

chapter Chapter 5|14 pages

Recovering from childhood trauma

chapter Chapter 6|18 pages

Stages along the sandplay journey

chapter Chapter 7|34 pages

Tracking themes in sandplay therapy

chapter Chapter 8|26 pages

Age and gender issues

chapter Chapter 9|10 pages

Transference and countertransference in sandplay

chapter Chapter 10|17 pages

Sandplay and alchemy

chapter Chapter 11|12 pages

Combining play therapy and sandplay therapy

chapter Chapter 12|14 pages

Sandplay with adults

chapter Chapter 13|3 pages

Final thoughts