ABSTRACT
The general practice of sandplay is extremely complex, given the diverse issues of the clients, and the variety and uniqueness of each individual sandplay process. Although psychotherapists usually present sandplay as a form of healing play, it is absolutely necessary to remain fully aware that sandplay is not a game, but a very serious and profound psychoneurological reconstruction activity that unfolds according to transpersonal dictates. Sandplay works beyond cognitive rationality, and the therapist encourages the patient to make free associations, instead of engaging in intellectual reasoning. The chapter examines the sandplay work of a child, an adolescent, and an adult, as a way of experiencing the process of psychic movement in sandplay and as an example of the very wide variety of sandplay processes. Therapeutic work with adolescents is provocative and sometimes difficult. This is true with Sandplay, as well as other modalities.
