Sandplay Therapy
Sandplay therapy is a clinical, expressive method in which a client creates scenes with sand, water, and miniatures within a protected therapeutic relationship.
Tradition: Jungian
Dora Kalff
Dora Kalff was a Swiss therapist who developed Jungian sandplay therapy by integrating Margaret Lowenfeld’s World Technique with analytical psychology.
Trickster
The Trickster is an archetypal boundary-breaker whose humor, appetite, deception, mistakes, and reversals can expose rigidity while also causing real harm.
Psychological Inflation
Psychological inflation is an expanded or diminished self-estimate caused by identifying the ego with an archetype, role, group, insight, or unconscious content.
Emma Jung
Emma Jung was a Swiss Jungian analyst and author known for her work on the anima and animus, the Grail legend, and the early analytical psychology movement.
The Red Book: Liber Novus
The Red Book: Liber Novus records and artistically develops Carl Jung’s confrontation with inner figures and images during a formative period of his psychology.
Circumambulation
Circumambulation is a Jungian method of staying close to one image while examining it repeatedly from different personal, emotional, symbolic, and practical viewpoints.
Child
The Child archetype represents vulnerable beginnings, unrealized potential, renewal, dependence, abandonment, and a future personality still developing.
Psychological Opposites
Psychological opposites are conflicting conscious and unconscious positions whose tension can reveal one-sidedness and support development.
Transcendent Function
The transcendent function is the new psychological attitude or symbolic possibility that can emerge when conscious and unconscious positions are held in genuine dialogue.