The Basics of Sand Play Therapy and the Clinical Case

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  • Matsuda Mariko
    Faculty of Clinical Psychology, Department of Clinical Psychology, Kyoto Bunkyo University

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  • 箱庭療法の基礎と臨床事例について
  • ハコニワ リョウホウ ノ キソ ト リンショウ ジレイ ニ ツイテ

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<p>Sandplay therapy is a psychotherapy technique mainly used in education and medical services. M. Lowenfeld originally devised it in 1929 as a psychotherapy approach for children, known as the World Technique. Subsequently, D. M. Kalff, a child therapist approved by C. G. Jung, developed its present form based on a theory of Jungian psychology. In sandplay therapy, it is important to observe sand trays of clients from an overall perspective rather than individually examining the details. Another important point is predicting the progress of counseling. As the therapy encourages clients to create concrete manifestations from their unconscious imagination, it may have destructive action in addition to therapeutic effects. Therefore, it is important for clinicians to use sandplay therapy for clinical practice with a sufficient understanding of its ambivalence. To discuss the applicability of sandplay therapy, this paper refers to coloring shock (refusal/discontinuation of coloring), and the mixture of rivers and streets as phenomena observed at the stage of coloring in therapy using the Landscape Montage Technique, which was developed by Hisao Nakai. A sand tray created by a female in her twenties with obsessive-compulsive neurosis was also analyzed in order to develop insight into manifestations using sand in psychotherapy.</p>

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