Sandplay Therapy: Treatment of Psychopathologies
α’αααΈααααα βααΆααα‘ααααα
Often the hands will solve a mysteryΒ
that the intellect has struggled with in vain.Β
β C.G. Jung
Ten European sandplay therapists describe how severe psychopathologies can be treated in the βfree and protected spaceβ of the sandbox.
The sandplay therapy cases in this book illustrate some of the most difficult, yet also most effective applications: psychoses, borderline syndromes, psychosomatic illnesses, drug addictions, or narcissistic character disorders.Β
Sandplay seems to access areas of human suffering which have otherwise always resisted psychotherapeutic treatment.Β
Recent research in neuroscience explains why this is possible: trauma is not remembered in verbal form β what has never been articulated in words nor ever βshapedβ cannot be outwardly expressed. In sandplay, however, βitβ manifests itself as a form, shaped by the hands.Β
The inexpressible can be seen and touched β therefore, it can be transformed.
Contents:
Eva Pattis Zoja:Β Understanding with the Hands
Vito La Spina:Β Sandplay Therapy in the Treatment of Borderline Personality Disturbance
Andreina Navone:Β Matter and the Psyche: A Feasible Therapy
Stefano Marinucci:Β Children in Distress
Francesco Montecchi:Β The Self and Family Archetypes in Children
Wilma Bosio:Β Image and the Analytical Relationship in Sandplay Therapy
Lorenzo Bignamini:Β Sacrifice as Death and Rebirth in Adolescent Development
Marcella Merlino:Β Images of Time: New Departures at a Public Drug Addiction Clinic
Franco Castellana:Β Sandplay and the Analytical Partnership
Ruth Ammann:Β On Resonance
