Purposeful Imaging

Kay Bradway, PhD, JA, CST-T

Abstract

Kay Bradway states that she finds purposeful imaging a helpful description of what happens in sandplay therapy as well as in dreams, active imagination and art forms. She goes on to say that “the term ‘active imagination’ which has been used by some to describe what happens in sandplay therapy does not do it for me.” Purposeful imaging by the unconscious is clearly visible to the conscious of both the sandplayer and the therapist, even if neither one is conscious of what it meant at the time.

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