Books received

GUGGENBÜHL, ALLAN. The Incredible Fascination of Violence: Dealing with Aggression and Brutality Among Children. Woodstock, CT:  Spring Publications, 1996. Pp.  147. Pbk. £14.99.

Violence and aggression are to some extent inexplicable at least in our present state of knowledge. They are the very antithesis of thinking and of thought and as such are penetrated only with great difficulty. This book considers the nature of violence in children both in its day to day expression and its archetypal roots.

Guggenbühl addresses the subject as a series of issues likely to be encountered in both personal and professional spheres: as parents or when working with children or young people. The culture of violence is considered along with violence in schools, parents' fear of their children's violence and the particular problems that adolescence brings. This is an easily read book which gives access to some of the most difficult and demanding emotional situations that one is likely to come across.

BRADWAY, KAY & MCCOARD, BARBARA. Sandplay - Silent Workshop of the Psyche. London & New York:  Routledge, 1997. Pp.  xvi + 232. Hbk. £50.00; Pbk. £15.99.

Sandplay as a therapeutic medium has attracted particular attention from people with a Jungian orientation. Bradway & McCoard give an overview of the historical development of sandplay and its relationship to verbal therapies, in particular the practice of analytical psychology. Sandplay has been used most commonly, although by no means exclusively, in child psychotherapy. The development of this is recorded, with particular reference to the work of Dora Kalff who studied with Margaret Lowenfeld. The authors' theoretical orientation is in the classical Jungian tradition but makes reference to other Jungian and psychoanalytic theorists. They consider that sandplay may have particular advantages when working with children, and with regressed adults especially in those emotional states that cannot be articulated in order to ‘