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(1982). Journal of Analytical Psychology, 27:294-295

Hill, G. et al. (Eds). Sandplay Studies: Origins, Theory and Practice. San Francisco, C. G. Jung Institute. Pp. xiii+238. $16.

Dorothy Davidson

This promised to be an interesting and exciting book. It is a collection of papers written by members of the C. G. Jung Institute of San Francisco, with photographic illustrations of the sand worlds of both children and adults.

In her foreword Dora Kalff, a Zürich-trained analytical psychologist, writes: ‘In my experience sandplay constitutes in itself a method whereby the individuation process is lived through and expressed. I personally have never considered it an adjunct to verbal analysis, to be used only at certain points in the therapeutic process’. She maintains that the decisive characteristic of sandplay is that it is in itself ‘a mediator between the poles of the visible and the invisible’, and also between the body and the mind. ‘The picture is formed physically in the sand so that we can say the inner contents (of the psyche) find a physical form. Since the figures used in the sand tray are made in the material world, an unconscious content is immediately transformed in the conscious world, thereby giving the patient experience of the transformative qualities of energies.’

Tribute is paid to the originators: first to H. G. Wells who, as a result of playing many fascinating games with his two sons, published Floor Games in 1911, secondly to Margaret Lowenfeld, the founder of the Institute of Child Psychology, London, and to her development of what she called her ‘World Technique’, the basic elements of which

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