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The three voices of the book's title belong to its three authors: Kay Bradway, co-founder of the International Society of Sandplay Therapists of America (STA), Lucia Chambers, co-founder and currently educational consultant of STA, and Maria Ellen Chiaia, Jungian analyst and author and current board chair of STA. They are concerned with sandplay therapy as developed by Dora Kalff, which is based on Jungian principles.
This book is about three practitioners looking at their individual sandplay practices and trying to draw conclusions from their shared experiences. The volume is structured as sets of ‘trialogues’, conversations in free-fall between three experienced practitioners whose insights, questions, truths and doubts jostle with fragments of theory in attempts to speak what they practise. Together they discuss issues current in their practices of sandplay therapy, and as each woman brings to the conversation her own style and concerns, we find naïveté and knowledge weaving together toward an outcome which sometimes finds them in accord and sometimes not. The trialogues cover issues that directly affect aspects of sandplay therapy, such as silence, the child, the mother, chaos and the numinous. Underlying every trialogue and every theme is a consideration of relationship in the therapeutic practice.
Apart from the expected relationship in transference and countertransference, Kay Bradway's term co-transference is given as another option in the dynamic of practitioner and sandplayer. Maria Chiaia explains the many relationships brought under consideration in the practice of sandplay, these being the relationships to the sand and the figures, the relationship between therapist and client, and how these impact on each other.
Following on from each trialogue is a short individually written chapter which develops the theme of the trialogue, and in which each woman brings a clarification of her perspective. An example of this are the chapters on the child. Here we read a