Images of the Self: The Sandplay Therapy Process (The Sandplay Classics series)

Very detailed case studies describing how sandplay worked when other methods did not work. The ability of sandplay to bypass cognitive blocks is amazing. This is an excellent tool for the therapist's toolbox.

Awesome book for developing a base understanding of Sandplay Therapy.

Excellent. Very interesting book and all that I expected and wanted.

I really liked this book because it is extremely practical, but also reflects some key Jungian and allied theory. It is a quick read and provides an excellent orientation to the field of sandplay therapy for anyone to get out of the starting blocks in this field. It contains some of the seminal thought on sandplay and is highly accessible in terms of terminology, also for the lay person. I would suggest that persons keen to obtain this book also get Barbara Turner's handbook on sandplay therapy, which expands on some of the key concepts and processes Kay U. Brugge, D.Phil. Lifestrategist, Johannesburg, South Africa.

Good book from one of the founders of play therapy.

As a trainee art psychotherapist I found this particularly useful when working with children who have access to a sand tray during sessions. Weinrib introduced the sand scenes as "sand paintings" which feels like a great bridge between the two creative therapies of Jungian theory. Highly recommend this book alongside Kalff's Sandplay theory.

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This book is very dated and has a few cringe-worthy allusions to gender stereotypes and "masculine" and "feminine" archetypes that made me wish there were better books on sand play that are more up-to-date. Many symbol interpretations were given without support of scholarship, making me feel I was reading a book directed to an ignorant and uneducated population. While the Jungian model may work, the gendered stereotypes and generalized ideas about archetypes made this a hard book to take seriously. A pity. I was hoping to learn more about sand play. I still think sand play works, but it seems to work despite the superficial and unexamined assumptions of the practitioners that wrote this book.