Bucher, Larry L.
ENGAGING MENOPAUSE: SYMBOLIC REFLECTIONS ON SNOW WHITE’S STEPMOTHER

Journal of Sandplay Therapy, Volume 14, Number 1, 2005

KEY WORDS: sandplay therapy, puer, senex, response article, men, menopause, mid-life.

ABSTRACT: Responding to the Cunningham-Amatruda presentation of the “Witch and the Queen” at the ’02 STA conference, the author reflects on those challenges present for men at mid-life through three self-constructed miniatures—Lot’s Wife, Ganesh, and Container Man—as well as the puer/senex archetypes.