Abstract
In this proceeding article, from the ISST 24th Congress,"Destruction and Creation in the Fertile Fields of Sandplay Therapy" which took place in Kailua-Kona in 2017, Deborah Bedford-Strohm presents a therapy process involving sandplay images that evoke both world creation and human conception. The client, "Ruth" struggles to overcome panic and depression. By addressing the life-blocking aspects of archetypal images of God as father/parent and her personal parental complex, the client moves from anger to rage to saddness to joyful freedom. This presentation describes a creative path integrating mutiple modalities: sandplay, active imagination, verbal therapy, inner child work, prayer, journaling and creative writing. In so doing, Ruth is able to bear wintness to the injunctives of her internalized personal mother and accept the archetypal parent as a source of healing and restoration. From the outset of the client's process, the theme of creation is highlighted, with the creation of human life—the client's own conception, inability to conceive and the potential conception of a new, unafraid self. Through the integration of shadow material and the rebuilding of life-affirming images the client experiences renewal.
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