Sandplay therapy
Sandplay therapy is a method that allows non-verbal therapeutic approaches in psychotherapy and by the Swiss therapist Dora M. Kalff (1904-1990) was founded.
Basics
The method is based on three foundations: the analytical psychology of Carl Gustav Jung, the initial diagnostic later therapeutic " art world " the London doctor Margaret Lowenfeld, and Buddhism as a spiritual tradition.
Description
Sandplay therapy is a well-founded method for psychosocial diagnosis and non-verbal psychotherapy for people of all ages. It is spread worldwide, was originally developed as a form of therapy for children and is now also used in the therapeutic work with adults. In addition, game and symbolic forms of designing are necessary, with other psychotherapeutic techniques and methods or pharmacotherapy can be integrated.
Requirement for sand play therapy is the "free and protected space " that the therapeutic situation and the therapeutic relationship provides.
The sand is offered in a specially designed table sandpit, its dimensions ( 57 × 7 or 9 × 72 cm ) depend on the size of the human field of vision. The inside is advantageously kept in water reminiscent of a blue hue to represent rivers, seas and lakes can. Is Designed with sand (preferably with additional water), in addition to a choice of figures such as humans, animals, plants, buildings, vehicles, and natural materials such as stones, shells, dried plant parts.
Without thematic specification can in therapy from the given material spontaneously abstract or concrete representations arise. They are symbolic transformations and representations of feelings, experiences or unconscious conflicts, and may contain solutions.
The sand game leads into deeper emotional layers that are easily accessible to consciousness or language, or else could not find a proper expression.
Accompanied the therapist touches a patient in a way that the unconscious areas of the psyche, opening up possibilities for change, Sandplay therapy is a beneficial effect. It is able to use a holistic process of change in movement, strengthen the own resources that will enable creative redesign and can be for healing and development of the total personality.
Applications
Use is Sandplay Therapy as a creative therapeutic method to promote patient, for example, self-esteem problems, developmental disorders, learning and concentration problems, psychosomatic disorders.
Trade associations
- German Society for Sandplay Therapy ( DGST )
- International Society for Sandplay Therapy ( ISST)