Relational sandplay therapy embraces all of these Kalffian theoretical principles:
Unconscious processes are expressed in concrete, visible form.
“Energies in the form of ‘living symbols’ are touched upon in the personal and collective unconscious, and healing then happens spontaneously at the unconscious level” (Lauren Cunningham, 2004).
Contact with archetypal energies results in a change in relationship between inner and outer worlds. There is then a return to a more integrated state.
The Jungian individuation process leading to Wholeness is visible in sandplay.
Neumann’s stages of development are foundational.
The freeing up of blocked psychic energy may be visible in the tray.
Sandplay facilitates a regression to the mother-infant unity and healing on the matriarchal level of consciousness.
The recovery of the Feminine is profoundly healing.
Play is the mediator between conscious and unconscious and the avenue to the expression of preverbal material.
Healing is implicit in the union of opposites and the transcendent function.
The constellation/manifestation of the Self, “this inner order, this pattern of wholeness” (Kalff, 2005, p.6) is the most important moment in development of the personality and in healing.
The relativization of the ego to the Self is crucial.
The clinician holds a developmental perspective of any given series of trays (Rogers & Mitchell, 1994).
The transference may be recognizable in the sandplay itself.
This is an excerpt from an article that appeared in The Journal of Sandplay Therapy, Volume XVI, Number 2, 2007: But is it Kalffian? by Linda Cunningham
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