HISTORICAL SANDPLAY PUBLICATIONS
Rie Rogers Mitchell, Ph.D., ABPP


This page has some of the key early sandplay publications, most largely unavailable. For information about these contributors and their work, see the two works by Mitchell & Friedman in this list.

Wells, H.G. (1911). Floor games (excerpts from book).

Lowenfeld, M. (1935). Play in childhood (excerpts from 1967 edition, which is almost identical).

Bolgar, H. & Fischer, L.K. (1947). Personality projection in the World Test.

Bühler, C. & Manson, M.P. (1956).The World Test: A new projective technique.

Bowyer (Pickford), L.R. (1959). The importance of sand in the World Technique: An experiment.

Kalff, D. (1966). The archetype as a healing factor (originally printed in German, 1962).

Bowyer (Pickford), L.R. (1970). The Lowenfeld World Technique (excerpts from book, including SP history 1925-1968).

Lowenfeld, M. (1979). The world technique (excerpts from book).

Kalff, D. (1980). Sandplay: A psychotherapeutic approach to the psyche (originally published in German, 1966).

Bradway, K. (1981). Developmental stages in children's sand worlds (with forward by D. Kalff).

Weinrib, E.L. (1983). Images of the self: The sandplay therapy process (with forward by D. Kalff).

Kalff, D. (1986). Autobiography (translated from German).

Kalff, D. (1991). Introduction to sandplay therapy (originally published in German, 1978).

Ammann, R. (1991). Healing and transformation in sandplay.

Friedman, H.S. & Mitchell, R.R. (1992), Sandplay: Overview of the first sixty years.

Kalff, Martin (1992). Twenty points to be considered in the interpretation of a sand play.

Pickford (Bowyer), R. (1992). The sand tray: Update 1970-1990.

✦ Mitchell, R.R. & Friedman, H.S. (1994), Sandplay: Past, present, & future. London: Routledge. (also published in German, Italian, Chinese, & Portugese). Table of Contents

Bradway, K. & McCoard, B. (1997). Sandplay: Silent workshop of the psyche. (excerpts from book).

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