Healing and Transformation in Sandplay: Creative Processes Made Visible

Sandplay is a powerful method of psychotherapy, based on practical, creative modelling - literally a hands-on approach to healing the whole person. Sandplay has both diagnostic and therapeutic value, and is efficacious for adults and children. Since there are no preconceived ideas about art in sand, there is a wonderful freedom and flow in using sand creatively. This book focuses on the process of sandplay and how it works. Ammann's account draws upon her wide knowledge of myth and folk tale, but remains a practical work, dealing systematically with the how-to details, the necessary role of sand pictures in enhancing the self-regulation of the psyche, the two routes from psyche to sand pictures, and the symbolic interpretation of spatial phenomena. Ammann illustrates these principles in several case histories. Healing and Transformation in Sandplay contains a plea to therapists to make greater use of sandplay, alongside classical dream analysis. As a means to liberate the forces of the brain's right hemisphere - the intuitive and bodily rather than logical or rational - sandplay activates deep layers of the unconscious in the service of healing and development, layers hard to reach with more verbal methods of therapy.

Author: Ruth Ammann
Publisher: Open Court
Published: 12/30/1998
Pages: 160
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.61lbs
Size: 8.94h x 5.97w x 0.53d
ISBN13: 9780812691412
ISBN10: 0812691415
BISAC Categories:
- Psychology | Psychotherapy | General
- Psychology | Movements | Jungian
- Psychology | Movements | Psychoanalysis

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