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A widespread rejection of play therapy based on ignorance and on continuing patriarchal attitudes within the post-Jungian professional bodies is potently countered by this book's celebration of sandplay therapy's first sixty-five years. This is a valuable reference work, citing over 375 clinical papers and books in its support and elucidation of sandplay theory, methodology and clinical worth. The joint authors, Rie Rogers Mitchell and Harriet S. Friedman, point to a growing movement away from tightly held reductionist thinking towards a spontaneous, cross-cultural, creative and more feminine realization/interpretation of projective images as created in patients' sand-plays. As the unconscious enables pre-verbal expression to be projected, energies are unblocked in sandplay by activating regenerative and healing connections to the unconscious self and to the ego.
An analysand of Emma and Carl Jung, the late Dora Kalff promoted worldwide her Jungian model of sandplay therapy, based on elements of earlier pioneer work by Margaret Lowenfeld in her ‘World Technique’, by Erik Erikson in his ‘Dramatic Productions Test’ and by Charlette Buhler in her ‘Toy World Test’. The latter two methods used miniature toys on hard surfaces, not on sand. In adding knowledge of emerging symbols to sandplay, the authors suggest that Dora Kalff was able to interpret both the inner and outer worlds that mediate universal (collective) and personal meanings for the patient.
To carry on this work, Kalff left behind at her death a dedicated group of Jungian analysts, her pupils, who are among the original founding members of the leading sandplay organization, The International Society of Sandplay Therapy (Founder: Dora M. Kalff). They are Katherine Bradway, Sausilito; Paula Carducci, Rome; Kazahiko Higuchi, Kyoto; Hayao Kawai, Kyoto; Kaspar Kiepenheuer, Zurich; Andreina Navone, Rome; Joel Ryce-Menuhin, London; and Estelle Weinrib, New York. Other analysts, psychiatrists and child therapists have