Sandplay Collection
I have trained therapists in sandplay for almost 15 years. What strikes me most about these trainings is the sense of awe experienced by the participants. As they dig into the sand, choose meaningful figures and
countertransference, mystical, psychotherapist
Countertransference as Mystical Experience
In Early relational trauma, Expanding Sandplay Theory on August 12, 2010 at 8:08 pmIn these times, many of our clients suffer from deep anxieties. Frequently, these anxieties reach into the psychic territory of unsymbolized experience: thoughts that cannot be thought, and feelings that cannot be felt. Use of countertransference as a clinical tool was developed so that psychotherapy could reach a broader range of people, to include the unsymbolized aspects of experience common for those who have suffered early relational trauma.
Even so, in the world of countertransference the therapist is always a beginner. The meaning
Field Four, numinous, Self, Transcendent Function
The Four Archetypal Relational Fields: Field Four
In Expanding Sandplay Theory, Four Archetypal Relational Fields, Sandplay on August 7, 2010 at 7:13 pmField Four: The Numinous Field of the Transcendent Function
Sometimes, Field Three leads us into Field Four (O’Connell, 1986), The Numinous Field, the heart of the transcendent function. The essence of Field Four is a dramatic shift in attitude accompanied by a sense of awe and the constellation of the Self that is so familiar to Jungian sandplay therapists. Field Four is a shared, transcendent, relational experience of the union of conscious and unconscious, and it is an experience completely
