Relational Sandplay Therapy Author:Linda Cunningham The first book on sandplay to focus on the clinical relationship, Relational Sandplay Therapy provides both beginners and experienced sandplay therapists with a new perspective on the healing power of sandplay/sandtray. This perspective is relational, intersubjective, and deeply explores the interwovenness of mutual unconscious processes and how... more » they may be harnessed in the service of healing. In a truly creative synthesis, Linda Cunningham, Ph.D. brings to the forefront the importance of the therapeutic relationship in sandplay, and also explains in detail how to work within the relationship. Focusing on the importance of the therapist's subjective experience, she describes four archetypally based fields of human experiencing: Original Oneness/Merger, Twoness/Rupture, Differentiated Oneness/Transitional Space, and the Numinous Field of the Transcendent Function. The first two fields shed light on preverbal trauma revealed in more difficult or stuck sandplay therapies and how to understand it symbolically through the therapist's subjective experience. Through vivid clinical examples, Cunningham illustrates how silent understanding and containing may be the other--and at times the only--source of the symbol.« less