Intervention of AMSS Therapy for Dementia and Alzheimer’s disease
Sandtray Therapy
Sandplay/Sand/Sandtray therapy was developed as a non-verbal therapeutic tool especially for the population of children by Dr. Margaret Lowenfeld in the 1920’s (Lowenfeld, 1993). Sandtray therapy was founded on her belief that there is a strong connection between the play of a child and the eventual behavior of the adult. She also regarded the child’s play “not as an accident but as an essential function of childhood basically concerned with the adaptive process which…continues throughout life…and affects man’s ability to survive in his physical universe…and social environments” (Lowenfeld, 1967, p. 7).
Ruth Bowyer (1970) studied with Lowenfeld, eventually doing research with tools and in 1970 wrote The Lowenfeld World Technique: Studies in Personality. Dora Kalff also trained with Lowenfeld and established how to integrate the concepts between Jungian analysis and her method of Sandplay. The Kalffian perspective of sandplay became a remarkable hallmark in most of the literature and research (Ammann, 1991; Bradway, 1979, 1981 and 1997; Reed, 1970 and 1980; Weinrib, 1983). Kalff suggested to therapists and practitioners how to encourage patients to go deeper into their unconsciousness in order to find out techniques such as how to observe, to use, to experience, and to assist patients’ responses to the world. While her training sessions are very rigorous, she encourages practitioners from a wide spectrum of theories to incorporate her non-interpretive methods into their own models of working within their various fields (Kalff, 1980).
Sandtray Therapy
Sandplay/Sand/Sandtray therapy was developed as a non-verbal therapeutic tool especially for the population of children by Dr. Margaret Lowenfeld in the 1920’s (Lowenfeld, 1993). Sandtray therapy was founded on her belief that there is a strong connection between the play of a child and the eventual behavior of the adult. She also regarded the child’s play “not as an accident but as an essential function of childhood basically concerned with the adaptive process which…continues throughout life…and affects man’s ability to survive in his physical universe…and social environments” (Lowenfeld, 1967, p. 7).
Ruth Bowyer (1970) studied with Lowenfeld, eventually doing research with tools and in 1970 wrote The Lowenfeld World Technique: Studies in Personality. Dora Kalff also trained with Lowenfeld and established how to integrate the concepts between Jungian analysis and her method of Sandplay. The Kalffian perspective of sandplay became a remarkable hallmark in most of the literature and research (Ammann, 1991; Bradway, 1979, 1981 and 1997; Reed, 1970 and 1980; Weinrib, 1983). Kalff suggested to therapists and practitioners how to encourage patients to go deeper into their unconsciousness in order to find out techniques such as how to observe, to use, to experience, and to assist patients’ responses to the world. While her training sessions are very rigorous, she encourages practitioners from a wide spectrum of theories to incorporate her non-interpretive methods into their own models of working within their various fields (Kalff, 1980).
