Sandplay therapy (1)

Sandplay therapy is a psychotherapy method developed and founded by Dora Culver according to Jung's analytical psychology principle. Sandplay is a creative form of treatment by using images (positive imagination), which is a concentrated refinement of physical and mental life energy. This process is that visitors express their inner world in a free and protected space (sandbox room) by using sand, water and sand tools in the sandbox, and visitors unconsciously connect their inner nonverbal experience with blocked energy.

Simply put, sandbox game therapy is that visitors express their true thoughts by using sand, water and sand tools in the sandbox.

The role of sandplay therapy

Sand table presents intangible psychological content in an appropriate symbolic way. A series of images expressed in the sand table establish a continuous dialogue between the consciousness and unconsciousness in the minds of sand table players, and the healing process and the development of personality (as well as mind and self) inspired by it.

Activation of self-confidence energy. This is also the biggest role of sandplay therapy. Visitors can interact with consultants more easily by playing sand table games and experience high-quality socialization, thus bringing this good social feeling into daily social activities.

Children may sometimes be unable to accurately express their true inner thoughts due to oral expression, so they use sand tables to express their inner emotions and thoughts at that time, that is, intentions.

Adults playing sand table games can improve their self-confidence, improve their personality, improve their social skills, and effectively vent their negative emotions and release pressure.

2. From the unconscious to the conscious. Personal sandbox game can deeply show a person's inner world, directly contact and feel the unconscious, and understand a person's deep-seated needs to transform the mind.

3. In the sandbox game, some "prototypes" will appear in visitors' minds, which will be helpful for psychotherapy.

4. Sandplay is a kind of game for tourists to relax and play, which helps tourists to relax and promote personality development and inner perfection.

Finally, I borrow the view of Schiller, a famous German poet, writer, philosopher, historian and playwright in the18th century, one of the representatives of German enlightenment literature: the highest and most perfect realm of life is game, and only when people are fully human can they play; People are complete only when they play. The so-called "dance academy" and "childlike innocence" also mean this.

The scope of sandplay therapy

Sandplay therapy can be used for children and adults; In particular, it provides effective psychological counseling for visitors with psychological barriers such as autism, obsessive-compulsive disorder, phobia, social confusion and somatization.