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NORMA CHURCHILL
JOURNEY TO SNAKEWOMAN
Norma Churchill, who died in 2024, spent 20 years organizing the paintings and text from a remarkable series of visions she experienced in the 1970's, while living in San Francisco and practicing C.G. Jung's method of active imagination. This is a narrative of symbolic journeys in which Churchill was shown the wounds lying beneath the "progress" of modern culture. Her paintings on rice paper take us with her into the presence of the beings and scenes she encountered. Norma is a participant in her visions, and she depicts herself in her paintings, showing us the surprise, wonder, ecstasy, and intense, physically-felt suffering of her visionary experience.
Norma Churchill, who died in 2024, spent 20 years organizing the paintings and text from a remarkable series of visions she experienced in the 1970's, while living in San Francisco and practicing C.G. Jung's method of active imagination. This is a narrative of symbolic journeys in which Churchill was shown the wounds lying beneath the "progress" of modern culture. Her paintings on rice paper take us with her into the presence of the beings and scenes she encountered. Norma is a participant in her visions, and she depicts herself in her paintings, showing us the surprise, wonder, ecstasy, and intense, physically-felt suffering of her visionary experience.
LORRAINE RAZZI FREEDLE
WHEN A GODDESS ERUPTS
Pele in the Psyche of Women
. . . explores the living mythology of Pele–where myth, nature, and the psyche intertwine in a timeless dance of creation, destruction, and renewal. This heartfelt and multilayered book is rooted in Hawaiian culture, firsthand experiences with Pele’s fiery eruptions, and decades of psychotherapy practice. Through masterful storytelling and rich illustrations, Dr. Freedle takes readers into her therapy room where images of Pele emerge during Sandplay Therapy to help her clients transform their lives–inspiring us to kindle our own inner fires. No prior sandplay experience is required: the languages of archetype and image are universal.
Pele: A Living Goddess
Pele, Hawaiian goddess of fire and volcanoes, is alive in the ‘āina (land) and Hawaiian people. An ever-present archetypal force, she takes many forms. Her story is one of trauma, exile, self-discovery, and spiritual rebirth. Respecting and harnessing her potent energies allows people to navigate life’s complexities with passion, authenticity, and purpose.
Dr. Freedle describes her community’s resilience during the devastating 2018 Kīlauea eruption. She shares her personal encounters with Pele and stories of women who meet Pele in their psychotherapy. These narratives illuminate themes of cyclical change and profound connections between life, death, and rebirth.
The Healing Power of Sandplay
Dr. Freedle specializes in Sandplay Therapy, an expressive modality developed by Dora Kalff and inspired by C.G. Jung's theories. In this mindful practice, clients use sand and figurines to create scenes and activate the healing capacity of the unconscious. Freedle explains seven key principles of sandplay and shares vivid images made during sessions as the process unfolds.
Stories of Transformation: Five Remarkable Journeys
Inspiring journeys of five women, guided by Pele’s archetypal energies as they navigate life’s challenges:
Lehua, a Native Hawaiian girl draws upon Pele’s lessons to face anxiety amidst community crises–from a major eruption to the global pandemic.
Ginger, an environmental activist, confronts burnout and perfectionism, finding strength to embrace the unknown through surrender to Pele’s wisdom.
Maile, a Native Hawaiian career woman and mother, taps into Pele’s elemental energies to confront childhood trauma, channeling her anger into an inner sanctuary of peace and empowerment.
Daisy, a young gay Christian woman, discovers self-acceptance in a world of conflicted identities, with Pele and the Black Madonna as her guides.
Puahone, a Native Hawaiian cultural practitioner, releases pain from personal and ancestral trauma to reclaim a sense of self and collective healing, as Pele appears in many forms.
Pele in the Psyche of Women
. . . explores the living mythology of Pele–where myth, nature, and the psyche intertwine in a timeless dance of creation, destruction, and renewal. This heartfelt and multilayered book is rooted in Hawaiian culture, firsthand experiences with Pele’s fiery eruptions, and decades of psychotherapy practice. Through masterful storytelling and rich illustrations, Dr. Freedle takes readers into her therapy room where images of Pele emerge during Sandplay Therapy to help her clients transform their lives–inspiring us to kindle our own inner fires. No prior sandplay experience is required: the languages of archetype and image are universal.
Pele: A Living Goddess
Pele, Hawaiian goddess of fire and volcanoes, is alive in the ‘āina (land) and Hawaiian people. An ever-present archetypal force, she takes many forms. Her story is one of trauma, exile, self-discovery, and spiritual rebirth. Respecting and harnessing her potent energies allows people to navigate life’s complexities with passion, authenticity, and purpose.
Dr. Freedle describes her community’s resilience during the devastating 2018 Kīlauea eruption. She shares her personal encounters with Pele and stories of women who meet Pele in their psychotherapy. These narratives illuminate themes of cyclical change and profound connections between life, death, and rebirth.
The Healing Power of Sandplay
Dr. Freedle specializes in Sandplay Therapy, an expressive modality developed by Dora Kalff and inspired by C.G. Jung's theories. In this mindful practice, clients use sand and figurines to create scenes and activate the healing capacity of the unconscious. Freedle explains seven key principles of sandplay and shares vivid images made during sessions as the process unfolds.
Stories of Transformation: Five Remarkable Journeys
Inspiring journeys of five women, guided by Pele’s archetypal energies as they navigate life’s challenges:
Lehua, a Native Hawaiian girl draws upon Pele’s lessons to face anxiety amidst community crises–from a major eruption to the global pandemic.
Ginger, an environmental activist, confronts burnout and perfectionism, finding strength to embrace the unknown through surrender to Pele’s wisdom.
Maile, a Native Hawaiian career woman and mother, taps into Pele’s elemental energies to confront childhood trauma, channeling her anger into an inner sanctuary of peace and empowerment.
Daisy, a young gay Christian woman, discovers self-acceptance in a world of conflicted identities, with Pele and the Black Madonna as her guides.
Puahone, a Native Hawaiian cultural practitioner, releases pain from personal and ancestral trauma to reclaim a sense of self and collective healing, as Pele appears in many forms.
LYNNE EHLERS
ALCHEMY and INDIVIDUATION
The Colors of Transformation
In this unique book, Lynne Ehlers elucidates the ancient alchemical sequence of color changes observed when making mercuric sulfide (cinnabar, vermilion): black, white, yellow, and red. She demonstrates—with two carefully documented case studies—that this very same color sequence emerged in the dreams and sandplay creations during depth psychotherapy and analysis.
Alchemy and Individuation integrates the work of Jung and Jungian scholars, alchemists, historical and literary references, religious symbolism, and the work of contemporary neuroscientists. Ehlers illustrates the text with magnificent alchemical paintings, art, and moving sandplay imagery—opening wide the doors into the emotional and psychological meaning of the colors and opening our hearts to the awesome power of the unconscious to heal.
Ehler’s research originated with an epiphany: reading about the color sequence, she suddenly wondered if the colors in her dream record might follow the same sequence. Her dissertation offered empirical statistical support that the black, white, and red were, indeed, discrete, sequential stages in the process of transformation. Years later, she observed that the colors chosen in a client’s sandplay followed the same sequence.
This beautifully written and illustrated book includes case studies that provide valuable material for further study and for teaching about dreams and sandplay. We witness the poignantly transformative journeys, vividly brought to life in the author’s dreams, poetry, and experiences in her personal analysis, and in the clinical amplification of her client’s depth psychotherapy, illustrated with sandplay scenes.
The Colors of Transformation
In this unique book, Lynne Ehlers elucidates the ancient alchemical sequence of color changes observed when making mercuric sulfide (cinnabar, vermilion): black, white, yellow, and red. She demonstrates—with two carefully documented case studies—that this very same color sequence emerged in the dreams and sandplay creations during depth psychotherapy and analysis.
Alchemy and Individuation integrates the work of Jung and Jungian scholars, alchemists, historical and literary references, religious symbolism, and the work of contemporary neuroscientists. Ehlers illustrates the text with magnificent alchemical paintings, art, and moving sandplay imagery—opening wide the doors into the emotional and psychological meaning of the colors and opening our hearts to the awesome power of the unconscious to heal.
Ehler’s research originated with an epiphany: reading about the color sequence, she suddenly wondered if the colors in her dream record might follow the same sequence. Her dissertation offered empirical statistical support that the black, white, and red were, indeed, discrete, sequential stages in the process of transformation. Years later, she observed that the colors chosen in a client’s sandplay followed the same sequence.
This beautifully written and illustrated book includes case studies that provide valuable material for further study and for teaching about dreams and sandplay. We witness the poignantly transformative journeys, vividly brought to life in the author’s dreams, poetry, and experiences in her personal analysis, and in the clinical amplification of her client’s depth psychotherapy, illustrated with sandplay scenes.
PIERRE WILLEQUET
EGO: THE ULTIMATE DEITY
Reflections on the Formation of the Self, its Madness, its Genius
This is the first book translated into English by the distinguished and creative French psychoanalyst, Pierre Willequet. He is known for the originality of his approach and his capacity to integrate material from classic literature, the arts, Jungian psychoanalysis, Eastern practices, and work with parents and children. In this volume he tackles the current overemphasis on the ego, which poses enormous societal problems. After the spectacular collapse of major symbolic systems such as religions and the various “ism” ideologies, the ego has gradually imposed itself as the ultimate horizon, demanding a kind of obedience on the part of individuals in order to achieve their own interests: security, identity claims, permanent enjoyment, refusal of death and so on. Yet it is surprising to note that, apart from a few exceptions, the ego problematic has not been sufficiently analyzed in psychology literature. For this reason, the present book offers an original reading of the formation, role and place of the ego in the global psychic economy. It sheds a unique light on a central psychic function which, sooner or later, everyone is called upon to take a position.
Reflections on the Formation of the Self, its Madness, its Genius
This is the first book translated into English by the distinguished and creative French psychoanalyst, Pierre Willequet. He is known for the originality of his approach and his capacity to integrate material from classic literature, the arts, Jungian psychoanalysis, Eastern practices, and work with parents and children. In this volume he tackles the current overemphasis on the ego, which poses enormous societal problems. After the spectacular collapse of major symbolic systems such as religions and the various “ism” ideologies, the ego has gradually imposed itself as the ultimate horizon, demanding a kind of obedience on the part of individuals in order to achieve their own interests: security, identity claims, permanent enjoyment, refusal of death and so on. Yet it is surprising to note that, apart from a few exceptions, the ego problematic has not been sufficiently analyzed in psychology literature. For this reason, the present book offers an original reading of the formation, role and place of the ego in the global psychic economy. It sheds a unique light on a central psychic function which, sooner or later, everyone is called upon to take a position.
PATRICIA DAMERY
FRUITS OF EDEN
Napa Valley Field Notes 1991 - 2019
Patricia Damery takes readers on a thirty-year journey, vividly recounting her citizen activism to protect the world-famous Napa Valley from the ravages of over-development, water plundering, government failures, greed and damaging tourism.
Damery’s articulate and Illustrative voice is a powerful call that interweaves the story of her ranch with her history, reflections, marriage and her husband’s onset of dementia. His Alzheimer’s began at the same time as pressure on the ranch’s sustainability became acute. Conversely, there is also great hope. The author’s relationships with colleagues in action for the valley, her children, her grandchildren and friends all share a deep love for this extraordinary place on the planet.
Over the decades Damery and her husband, Donald Harms, developed a way of life that respected the natural ecology of their land in the Napa Valley. They applied organic and biodynamic methods, left large parts in their natural state, and had a herd of goats that lived next to Patricia’s writing studio. Then climate change coupled with egregious overdevelopment overcame them, threatening to destroy their way of life. Destruction of native oaks caused erosion and groundwater depletion, insecticide use disrupted the balance of animal life, including beneficial insects, population density and tourism brought air pollution and congestion, and finally global warming brought repeated fires, a risk that continues today
Napa Valley Field Notes 1991 - 2019
Patricia Damery takes readers on a thirty-year journey, vividly recounting her citizen activism to protect the world-famous Napa Valley from the ravages of over-development, water plundering, government failures, greed and damaging tourism.
Damery’s articulate and Illustrative voice is a powerful call that interweaves the story of her ranch with her history, reflections, marriage and her husband’s onset of dementia. His Alzheimer’s began at the same time as pressure on the ranch’s sustainability became acute. Conversely, there is also great hope. The author’s relationships with colleagues in action for the valley, her children, her grandchildren and friends all share a deep love for this extraordinary place on the planet.
Over the decades Damery and her husband, Donald Harms, developed a way of life that respected the natural ecology of their land in the Napa Valley. They applied organic and biodynamic methods, left large parts in their natural state, and had a herd of goats that lived next to Patricia’s writing studio. Then climate change coupled with egregious overdevelopment overcame them, threatening to destroy their way of life. Destruction of native oaks caused erosion and groundwater depletion, insecticide use disrupted the balance of animal life, including beneficial insects, population density and tourism brought air pollution and congestion, and finally global warming brought repeated fires, a risk that continues today
PETER DEMUTH
MONSTERS IN LIFE and LITERATURE
A Forensic Psychologist Reflects on the Nature of Greed and Evil
Before becoming a Jungian analyst, Dr. Peter Demuth was a Senior Forensic Psychologist, having spent decades studying, evaluating, and treating violent criminals. He now shares with you what he has learned about human violence and the potential for evil, applying his forensic experience and his Jungian depth training to famous literary stories of monsters. In the first part of this book he introduces readers to concepts as psychological allergies, dark and light psychological adaptation, the behavioral chain, the effects of behavioral reinforcement, the existence of free will, and the ever important, yet often overlooked necessity of mature, healthy ego strength in the management of everyday life. He then meticulously sketches out the multiple factors that go into shaping an individual’s emotional and moral development and discusses the impact of important Jungian concepts such as archetypes, the shadow, and complexes. Dr. Demuth takes an up-close look at psychopathy and its intersection with violence, introducing several well researched psychological assessment instruments to show how important diagnostic distinctions are made. Dr Demuth explores the stories of literary monsters whose driving characteristics will inevitably manifest in the lives of actual individuals. Each story is told and discussed in depth, and the monster’s level of psychopathy and potential for rehabilitation are rated. Dr. Demuth is a compelling storyteller himself, and you will find yourself fascinated—and reflecting on the dark side of human nature that is a potential in each of us and in those we encounter in everyday life.
A Forensic Psychologist Reflects on the Nature of Greed and Evil
Before becoming a Jungian analyst, Dr. Peter Demuth was a Senior Forensic Psychologist, having spent decades studying, evaluating, and treating violent criminals. He now shares with you what he has learned about human violence and the potential for evil, applying his forensic experience and his Jungian depth training to famous literary stories of monsters. In the first part of this book he introduces readers to concepts as psychological allergies, dark and light psychological adaptation, the behavioral chain, the effects of behavioral reinforcement, the existence of free will, and the ever important, yet often overlooked necessity of mature, healthy ego strength in the management of everyday life. He then meticulously sketches out the multiple factors that go into shaping an individual’s emotional and moral development and discusses the impact of important Jungian concepts such as archetypes, the shadow, and complexes. Dr. Demuth takes an up-close look at psychopathy and its intersection with violence, introducing several well researched psychological assessment instruments to show how important diagnostic distinctions are made. Dr Demuth explores the stories of literary monsters whose driving characteristics will inevitably manifest in the lives of actual individuals. Each story is told and discussed in depth, and the monster’s level of psychopathy and potential for rehabilitation are rated. Dr. Demuth is a compelling storyteller himself, and you will find yourself fascinated—and reflecting on the dark side of human nature that is a potential in each of us and in those we encounter in everyday life.
STEVEN HERRMANN
WILLIAM JAMES and C.G. JUNG
Doorways to the Self
This book is an important contribution to the history of psychology in America and the influence of William James on C.G. Jung, as well as a fascinating exploration of what it means to be fully human. Steven Herrmann offers each reader an intriguing journey through the open and curious exploration of human nature by two of the most influential psychologists of the modern era: the philosopher William James, Harvard Professor and founder of American Psychology, and C.G. Jung, who expanded our view of psyche and the nature of the unconscious. Based on historical research and a nuanced reading of their works, Steven Herrmann elucidates their reflections on the streams of consciousness, psychophysics, pragmatism, pluralism, yoga, spiritual democracy, vocational dreams, synchronicity, transmarginal fields, and the Self. "Doorways to the Self" is not a mere metaphor but an invitation to recognize the living spiritual reality that exists in every person.
Doorways to the Self
This book is an important contribution to the history of psychology in America and the influence of William James on C.G. Jung, as well as a fascinating exploration of what it means to be fully human. Steven Herrmann offers each reader an intriguing journey through the open and curious exploration of human nature by two of the most influential psychologists of the modern era: the philosopher William James, Harvard Professor and founder of American Psychology, and C.G. Jung, who expanded our view of psyche and the nature of the unconscious. Based on historical research and a nuanced reading of their works, Steven Herrmann elucidates their reflections on the streams of consciousness, psychophysics, pragmatism, pluralism, yoga, spiritual democracy, vocational dreams, synchronicity, transmarginal fields, and the Self. "Doorways to the Self" is not a mere metaphor but an invitation to recognize the living spiritual reality that exists in every person.
AUDREY PUNNETT (Ed.)
JUNGIAN CHILD ANALYSIS
Cultural Perspectives
Contributors:
Moshe Alon
Viktoria Andreeva
Lucia Azevedo
Elena Bortuleva
Mei-Fang Huang
Batya Brosh Palmoni
Audrey Punnett
Lavinia Tanculescu-Popa
Caterina Vezzoli
In this book, distinguished How dofamily heritage, national history, and culture influence children and youth and inform their development and relationships? Jungian child and adolescent analysts from the United States, Brazil, Italy, Romania, Russia, Israel and Taiwan describe cultural, historical and familial factors particular to their countries. Via case studies, they show how these factors are embedded in the psyche. The analysts describe how deep knowledge of the traumatic elements of the history of their nation and of traditional and changing cultural and family values illuminates their work with children, adolescents, and their families. In the case material, they illustrate how these factors can aid or impede the therapy. Their insights not only enhance the work of therapists, but also encourage every reader to look deeper into their own national, cultural, and family history. This deeper look can lead to greater understanding of the Other, as we meet the Other within ourselves, in our work, and in the larger community.
Cultural Perspectives
Contributors:
Moshe Alon
Viktoria Andreeva
Lucia Azevedo
Elena Bortuleva
Mei-Fang Huang
Batya Brosh Palmoni
Audrey Punnett
Lavinia Tanculescu-Popa
Caterina Vezzoli
In this book, distinguished How dofamily heritage, national history, and culture influence children and youth and inform their development and relationships? Jungian child and adolescent analysts from the United States, Brazil, Italy, Romania, Russia, Israel and Taiwan describe cultural, historical and familial factors particular to their countries. Via case studies, they show how these factors are embedded in the psyche. The analysts describe how deep knowledge of the traumatic elements of the history of their nation and of traditional and changing cultural and family values illuminates their work with children, adolescents, and their families. In the case material, they illustrate how these factors can aid or impede the therapy. Their insights not only enhance the work of therapists, but also encourage every reader to look deeper into their own national, cultural, and family history. This deeper look can lead to greater understanding of the Other, as we meet the Other within ourselves, in our work, and in the larger community.
SACHIKO TAKI-REECE
PSYCHOTHERAPY WITH INNER CITY CHILDREN
Mixed Methods Research on Seven Case Studies using Sandplay Therapy
Dr. Sachiko Taki-Reece began as a registered nurse, working with children in Kyoto, Japan. There she studied with Hayao Kawai, who had just returned from training in Switzerland. He brought to Japan both Jungian analysis and Dora Kalff's method of "sandplay therapy." (Kawai, a Professor at Kyoto University, later became the Culture Minister of Japan.) Taki-Reece underwent analysis with Kawai and introduced sandplay into her work with troubled youth. She relocated to California, where she continued to study sandplay and eventually became a Jungian analyst and a certified Sandplay Therapist. Dr. Taki-Reece is widely known as a teacher, analyst, and sandplay therapist. This book describes her therapeutic approach to working with children in a Los Angeles County Public Health program for children with severe behavioral and academic problems. She presents case studies of seven children who lived in poverty and had experienced early severe stressors, such as parental drug addiction, abandonment, physical abuse, suicide or murder of a family member, and placement in foster homes. Taki-Reece presents the therapy sessions in vivid detail, including color photographs of sandplay slides, as well as her research methods and results. This book is an invaluable resource for therapists, administrators, social workers, teachers.
Mixed Methods Research on Seven Case Studies using Sandplay Therapy
Dr. Sachiko Taki-Reece began as a registered nurse, working with children in Kyoto, Japan. There she studied with Hayao Kawai, who had just returned from training in Switzerland. He brought to Japan both Jungian analysis and Dora Kalff's method of "sandplay therapy." (Kawai, a Professor at Kyoto University, later became the Culture Minister of Japan.) Taki-Reece underwent analysis with Kawai and introduced sandplay into her work with troubled youth. She relocated to California, where she continued to study sandplay and eventually became a Jungian analyst and a certified Sandplay Therapist. Dr. Taki-Reece is widely known as a teacher, analyst, and sandplay therapist. This book describes her therapeutic approach to working with children in a Los Angeles County Public Health program for children with severe behavioral and academic problems. She presents case studies of seven children who lived in poverty and had experienced early severe stressors, such as parental drug addiction, abandonment, physical abuse, suicide or murder of a family member, and placement in foster homes. Taki-Reece presents the therapy sessions in vivid detail, including color photographs of sandplay slides, as well as her research methods and results. This book is an invaluable resource for therapists, administrators, social workers, teachers.
DORA KALFF
SANDPLAY
A Psychotherapeutic Approach to the Psyche
C .G. and Emma Jung recognized that Dora Kalff had an unusual ability to relate to children and their inner lives and so encouraged her to extend Jung's work to the treatment of children. Kalff brought to this endeavor her experience as a student of languages (including Sanskrit and Chinese), classical piano, and Eastern contemplative practices. She traveled from her native Switzerland to London, where she studied with Margaret Lowenfeld and was influenced by her contacts with D.W. Winnicott.Kalff developed a way of working she called "Sandspiel" or "sandplay." This method introduced a shallow sandbox in which the patient could arrange the sand in whatever form expressed itself from within, with or without the addition of miniatures. In this book, Kalff presents nine case studies, which include sandplay in the therapeutic work. She conveys the importance of the therapist's empathic acceptance of the patient, creating a "free and protected space," as well as the experience required to understand and be affected by symbolic reflections of inner dilemmas and to recognize the psychic organization represented by the patient in the sand.
A Psychotherapeutic Approach to the Psyche
C .G. and Emma Jung recognized that Dora Kalff had an unusual ability to relate to children and their inner lives and so encouraged her to extend Jung's work to the treatment of children. Kalff brought to this endeavor her experience as a student of languages (including Sanskrit and Chinese), classical piano, and Eastern contemplative practices. She traveled from her native Switzerland to London, where she studied with Margaret Lowenfeld and was influenced by her contacts with D.W. Winnicott.Kalff developed a way of working she called "Sandspiel" or "sandplay." This method introduced a shallow sandbox in which the patient could arrange the sand in whatever form expressed itself from within, with or without the addition of miniatures. In this book, Kalff presents nine case studies, which include sandplay in the therapeutic work. She conveys the importance of the therapist's empathic acceptance of the patient, creating a "free and protected space," as well as the experience required to understand and be affected by symbolic reflections of inner dilemmas and to recognize the psychic organization represented by the patient in the sand.
![THE THERAPEUTIC MECHANISM of SANDPLAY THERAPY
This book brings to a wider audience an important Japanese contribution to research on Sandplay Therapy, a psychotherapeutic method that is practiced worldwide.
Dr. Ishihara asks the essential question, “What part of making a sandplay scene facilitates therapeutic change?”
To study this question, Dr. Ishihara created an original protocol that focuses on the subjective experience in sandplay, rather than relying on the observations of the researcher.
His protocol instructs the research participant to choose one item out of 550 miniatures and to place it in a sand tray where he/she feels, “Here it is [where it belongs].” The participant then responds to a questionnaire, followed by an interview. During the interview, the way in which participants make their choices is further explored, for example by asking the participant to move the item to a different location in the sand tray.
The Therapeutic Mechanism of Sandplay Therapy will be of interest to those who study therapeutic change and will be a touchstone inspiring further research.](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/3303b3_8346285b2833461099d8a2eaa17c5f1d~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_851,h_849,q_90,enc_avif,quality_auto/3303b3_8346285b2833461099d8a2eaa17c5f1d~mv2.png)
HIROSHI ISHIHARA
THE MECHANISM of SANDPLAY THERAPY
Exploration through Qualitative Analysis of Clients' Subjective Experiences
This book brings to a wider audience an important Japanese contribution to research on Sandplay Therapy, a psychotherapeutic method that is practiced worldwide.
Dr. Ishihara asks the essential question, “What part of making a sandplay scene facilitates therapeutic change?”
To study this question, Dr. Ishihara created an original protocol that focuses on the subjective experience in sandplay, rather than relying on the observations of the researcher.
His protocol instructs the research participant to choose one item out of 550 miniatures and to place it in a sand tray where he/she feels, “Here it is [where it belongs].” The participant then responds to a questionnaire, followed by an interview. During the interview, the way in which participants make their choices is further explored, for example by asking the participant to move the item to a different location in the sand tray.
The Therapeutic Mechanism of Sandplay Therapy will be of interest to those who study therapeutic change and will be a touchstone inspiring further research.
Exploration through Qualitative Analysis of Clients' Subjective Experiences
This book brings to a wider audience an important Japanese contribution to research on Sandplay Therapy, a psychotherapeutic method that is practiced worldwide.
Dr. Ishihara asks the essential question, “What part of making a sandplay scene facilitates therapeutic change?”
To study this question, Dr. Ishihara created an original protocol that focuses on the subjective experience in sandplay, rather than relying on the observations of the researcher.
His protocol instructs the research participant to choose one item out of 550 miniatures and to place it in a sand tray where he/she feels, “Here it is [where it belongs].” The participant then responds to a questionnaire, followed by an interview. During the interview, the way in which participants make their choices is further explored, for example by asking the participant to move the item to a different location in the sand tray.
The Therapeutic Mechanism of Sandplay Therapy will be of interest to those who study therapeutic change and will be a touchstone inspiring further research.
DYANE N. SHERWOOD and BETTY C. JACKSON (EDs)
INTO THE HEART OF SANDPLAY
Contributors:
Rut Boss-Baumann
Brian Beetje
LaVon Bobo
Maggie Baron
Maria Ellen Chiaia
Lynne Ehlers
Lorraine Razzi Freedle
Harriet S. Friedman
Hannah-Valeria Grisko
Grace L. Hong,
Gao Lan
Shen Heyong
Margaret Humphris
Betty C. Jackson
Maria Kendler,
Gita Dorothy Morena
Audrey Punnett
Sarah Sugatt
Sachiko Taki-Reece,
Dyane N. Sherwood
Sylvia Simonyi-Elmer
Lenore Steinhardt, Louis Stewart
Janet Tatum
Judy D. Zappacosta
How do therapists discover a healing method that really works for them and inspires their own life's work? Unlike most books in the field of psychotherapy, which focus on the application of theory and practice to working with clients, this volume takes a step back, exploring through personal narrative the path of the therapist. - How and why did these therapists from all over the world stumble onto an unusual expressive modality called sandplay? Did they find it, or did it find them? And once found, what called them to experience firsthand and then to specialize in this unusual therapeutic method offering sand, water, and miniature figures and symbols for creative expression? In a field where talk therapy has been the gold standard for more than a century, this unique volume of stories shares what compelled these therapists to commit to a modality emphasizing not words, but the power of image and image-making to facilitate healing. - Contemporary neuroscience research has drawn attention to the importance of expressive, nonverbal modalities. These methods can access body memories that that have not reached our verbal awareness. The incorporation of sandplay into a therapy process can facilitate neural integration of touch, sight, proprioception, motor systems, the autonomic nervous system, associative and memory systems activated by the miniatures, and then, through reflection on the completed tray, forebrain regions involved in higher level emotional self-regulation and integrated decision-making. - In the process of reading these stories, you will learn that sandplay is not simply a technique. It is based upon values derived from the Analytical Psychology of C. G. Jung and the Buddhist practice of its founder, Dora Kalff. In sandplay, the patient-therapist relationship is based upon integrity, respect, and safety. A patient in therapy is invited to make a spontaneous creation in a sand tray, with the option of adding water and miniatures, as well as natural and decorative objects. The therapist, who has extensive training, is most often a quiet witness of the process. Together, they observe, but do not interpret, the production in the tray. Sand trays are made as often or seldom as the patient chooses over the course of the therapy. In this milieu, solutions to the patient's dilemma emerge rather than being directed by the therapist.
Contributors:
Rut Boss-Baumann
Brian Beetje
LaVon Bobo
Maggie Baron
Maria Ellen Chiaia
Lynne Ehlers
Lorraine Razzi Freedle
Harriet S. Friedman
Hannah-Valeria Grisko
Grace L. Hong,
Gao Lan
Shen Heyong
Margaret Humphris
Betty C. Jackson
Maria Kendler,
Gita Dorothy Morena
Audrey Punnett
Sarah Sugatt
Sachiko Taki-Reece,
Dyane N. Sherwood
Sylvia Simonyi-Elmer
Lenore Steinhardt, Louis Stewart
Janet Tatum
Judy D. Zappacosta
How do therapists discover a healing method that really works for them and inspires their own life's work? Unlike most books in the field of psychotherapy, which focus on the application of theory and practice to working with clients, this volume takes a step back, exploring through personal narrative the path of the therapist. - How and why did these therapists from all over the world stumble onto an unusual expressive modality called sandplay? Did they find it, or did it find them? And once found, what called them to experience firsthand and then to specialize in this unusual therapeutic method offering sand, water, and miniature figures and symbols for creative expression? In a field where talk therapy has been the gold standard for more than a century, this unique volume of stories shares what compelled these therapists to commit to a modality emphasizing not words, but the power of image and image-making to facilitate healing. - Contemporary neuroscience research has drawn attention to the importance of expressive, nonverbal modalities. These methods can access body memories that that have not reached our verbal awareness. The incorporation of sandplay into a therapy process can facilitate neural integration of touch, sight, proprioception, motor systems, the autonomic nervous system, associative and memory systems activated by the miniatures, and then, through reflection on the completed tray, forebrain regions involved in higher level emotional self-regulation and integrated decision-making. - In the process of reading these stories, you will learn that sandplay is not simply a technique. It is based upon values derived from the Analytical Psychology of C. G. Jung and the Buddhist practice of its founder, Dora Kalff. In sandplay, the patient-therapist relationship is based upon integrity, respect, and safety. A patient in therapy is invited to make a spontaneous creation in a sand tray, with the option of adding water and miniatures, as well as natural and decorative objects. The therapist, who has extensive training, is most often a quiet witness of the process. Together, they observe, but do not interpret, the production in the tray. Sand trays are made as often or seldom as the patient chooses over the course of the therapy. In this milieu, solutions to the patient's dilemma emerge rather than being directed by the therapist.
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