Maria Ellen Chiaia, PhD, LMFT, JA, CST-T

San Rafael, California, USA

Journal of Sandplay Therapy
Volume 10, Issue 2, 2001

Keywords

trauma, interpenetrating, mix, mix-up, Jungian, analytic, psychoanalytic, meeting, co-transference, transference, countertransference, creative emergence, unio mystica, mysterium coinunctionis, sandplay therapy, interpersonal, inter subjective, early wounding, depression, clinical example

Abstract

The author focuses on early trauma and in the importance of silence when working with preverbal wounding. She synthesizes a number of theoretical perspectives, including sandplay theory and practice and Jungian analytic and psychoanalytic theories. Clinical examples are included. (This article is based on a presentation given at the 2001 Psychoanalytic Division 39 of the APA in Santa Fe, New Mexico).