ABSTRACT
This chapter begins with an overview of the effect and extent of early traumatic experiences. Then, it discusses how loss is perceived from three perspectives: Jungian theory, attachment theory, and neuroscience research. Finally, excerpts from several child and adult sandplay cases are discussed, each of which deal with the experience of loss and then movement toward healing. The last two, longer cases involve women in their forties, each of whom moved from a place of alienation, created by early losses, to a place of recovery.
