Sandplay and the clinical relationship

Part 1 - Countertransference: from obstacle to royal road. 1 Countertransference in psychoanalytic theory. 2 Countertransference in Jungian theory. 3 The transference/countertransference field. 4 Countertransference in trauma work. 5 Countertransference in neuroscience and attachment theory. Part 2 - Transference/countertransference in sandplay: expanding and deepening the free and protected space. 6 Exploring sandplay's emphasis on positive transference/countertransference. Transference/countertransference as protection and safety. Idealization of the positive mother. A closer look at the free and protected space. Empathic immersion. The protective function of the sandtray. 7 Evidence for the full range of countertransference experience. 8 Co-transference: moving toward a relational theory. 9 Resonance: the sandplay therapist's subjective experience of the co-created relational field. Summary of Parts 1 and 2. Part 3 - Relational sandplay theory. 10 The four archetypal relational fields in sandplay. Field One: the field of original oneness/merger. Field Two: the field of twoness/rupture. Field 3: the field of differentiated oneness/transitional space. Field 4: the numinous field. Summary of Part 3. 11 The flow of relational energies in the self: qualities, symbolic meanings and interventions. 12 Case examples: an exploration of the four relational fields. 13 Implications for clinical work

'...further develops the clinical theory of sandplay therapy presented in her first book....including supporting evidence from neuroscience and attachment theory....brings to the foreground the importance of the therapeutic relationship in sandplay and also explains in detail how to work silently within the relationship....focusing on the importance of the therapist's subjective experience (countertransference) as the container for psychic energies....'

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