When I was at the Jung Institute in Zurich, several decades ago, the students' association arranged for an extracurricular course on sandtray therapy to be taught by Dora Kalff at her home, an old Swiss farmhouse in a suburb near Zurich. I remember being more impressed by the technique than by her explanation of its efficacy. My reaction is much the same to this book. Mrs Kalff, an intense woman, later founded the International Society of Sandplay Therapy (ISST), a fact mentioned several times in this book by the editor of Harvest. Sandplay therapy grew out of Kalff's adaptation