Books

Sandplay titles

The following list is not exhaustive.

Please note ** and ISST suggested texts following this booklist.

Aite, Paolo, (2007), Landscapes of the Psyche, Sandplay in Jungian Analysis,  English Translation by Robert W Mann, currently available as e-book, www.ipocpress.com. (Previously published ISN 978-88-95145-13-6 text and ISBN 978-88-95145-12-9 images 2007 IPOC di Pietro Condemi, Milan)

Ammann, R. (1991), Healing and Transformation in Sandplay: Creative processes become visible. Chicago: Open Court.

Armatruda, K., Simpson, P. (1997), Sandplay, The Sacred Healing: A guide to symbolic process. San Francisco, CA: Trance-Sand-Dance Press

Baum, N., & Weinberg, B. (Eds.), (2003). In the Hands of Creation: Sandplay images of birth and rebirth. Foreword by Kay Bradway. Toronto, Muki Baum.

Bowyer, (1970). The Lowenfeld world technique: Studies in personality. London: Pergamon Press.

Bradway, Katherine ; Signell K., Spare G., Stewart C.T., Stewart L.H., Thompson C. (1990). Sandplay studies: Origins, theory and practice. Boston:

Bradway, K. & McCoard, B. (1997). Sandplay: Silent Workshop of the Psyche. New York: Routledge Sigo Press

Bradway, Katherine, Chambers, Lucia and Chiaia, Maria Ellen (2005).  Sandplay in Three Voices. Routledge

CG Jung Institute of Sand Francisco (ed) (1990). Sandplay Studies. Sigo Press, Boston

Cunningham, L, PhD, (2013). Sandplay and the Clinical Relationship, ,San Francisco CA, Sempervirens Press

DeDominico, G.S. (1986). Applications of the Lowenfeld world technique: A comparative illustration of the analysis of the final world and the analysis of the sand tray play process. Oakland, CA: Vision Quest into Symbolic Reality.

Dundas E.T. (1990). Symbols come alive in the sand. Boston: Coventure.

Eastwood, P. (2003). Nine windows to wholeness: Exploring numbers in sandplay. Honolulu, HI: Sanity Press.

Friedman, H S and Rogers Mitchell, R, Eds, (2008). Supervision of Sandplay Therapy, New York, Routledge

Griffith, M. (2000). The wolf in sandplay therapy: A symbolic approach to psychotherapy. Bloomington, IL: Health Psychology Publications

Grubbs, G. (1997). The sandtray categorical checklist (SCC) for sandtray assessment. Saratoga, CA: Self published.

Hong, G.L., (2011). Sandplay Therapy, Research and Practice. New York, Routledge

Hunter, L. (1998). Images of Resiliency. Palm Beach: Behavioural Communications.

**Kalff, D.M. (2003/1980). Sandplay: A psychotherapeutic approach to the psyche. Cloverdale, CA: Temenos

Kalff, Martin (2022). Old and New Horizons of Sandplay Therapy, Mindfullness and Neural Integration. Routledge

Kawai, Hayao (1982) Introduction: Development of Sandplay Therapy.  Seishim-Shoboh, Tokyo

Kiepenheuer, K. (1990). Crossing the bridge: A Jungian approach to adolescence (K.R. Schneider, Trans.). La Salle, IL: Open Court.

Lowenfeld, M. (1993). Understanding children’s sandplay: Lowenfeld’s world technique. Great Britain: Antony Rowe Ltd.. (Originally published as The world technique, George Allen & Unwin Ltd., 1979)

Markell, M J (2002). Sand, Water, Silence – The Embodiment of Spirit, London, Routledge

McNally, S. ( 2003) Sandplay: A sourcebook for play therapists. Writers Club Press

Mitchell, R., & Friedman, H. (1994). Sandplay: Past, present & future. New York: Routledge

Mitchell, R, & Friedman, H (2021). Sandplay Wisdom: Understanding Sandplay Therapy. Routledge

Morena, G D, (1998) The Wisdom of OZ, Reflections of a Jungian Sandplay Therapist Berkley CA, Frog

Reed, J.P. (2002). Sand Magic: Experience in Miniature. Albequerque: JPR, Publishers.

Ryce-Menuhin, J. (1992). Jungian Sandplay: The wonderful therapy. London: Routledge

Steinhardt, L. (2000). Foundation and Form in Jungian Sandplay: An art therapy approach. London: Jessica Kingsly.

Steward LH (1984), (ed Stein, M).  Sandplay and Jungian Analysis.  Shambala, New York

Taki-Reece S (2022). Psychotherapy with Inner City Children: Mixed methods research based on seven case studies using Sandplay Therapy. Analytical Psychology Press

Weinberg, B. & Baum, N., (Eds), (2007) Sandplay and the Psyche: Inner Landscapes and Outer Realities. Thera Art, Toronto.

**Weinrib, Estelle L. (1993) Images of the Self, Boston, Ma, Sigo Press

Zoja, E P, Ed (2004) Sandplay Therapy, Treatment of Psychopathologies, Einsiedeln, Daimon Verlag

** Texts considered essential reading for ANZ-STI participants.

National Societies affiliated with the International Society for Sandplay Therapy also publish scholarly articles on Sandplay Therapy.

The International Society For Sandplay Therapy suggests the following texts:

Basic

  1. CG Jung, Memories, Dreams, Reflections, especially Chapter 5: confrontation with the unconscious
  2. CG Jung, Man and his Symbols
  3. Anthony Stevens: A very Short introduction to Jung
  4. Verna Kast: The Dynamics of Symbols 
  5. Verna Kast: Fundamentals of Jungian Psychotherapy

Intermediate

  1. Esther Harding: the I and the not – I
  2. Jacobi: Complex, Symbol and Archetype
  3. Emma Jung: Animus and Anima
  4. Edward Whitmont: The Symbolic Quest

ISST also notes the following texts as ‘essential writings of CG Jung  for appreciation of the method of Sandplay Therapy’:

Advanced

  1. Memories, Dreams, Reflections
  2. Man and his Symbols
  3. The transcendent function:  Collected works (CW)  8 paragraph 131 to 193
  4. The Individuation Process CW 9(i)
  5. On Psychic Energy: CW 8 paragraph 1-130
  6. A Review of the Complex Theory: CW 8  paragraph 194 – 219
  7. The Tavistock lectures: CW 18 paragraph 1 – 415
  8. Psychology and Alchemy: CW12 especially page 274: meditation and imagination
  9. The relation between the ego and the unconscious: CW 7, paragraph 202 – 373 (The Psychology of Transference CW 16)