心理臨床における人形と無限性について

Abstract

Dolls are very close to our existence and there are many dolls even in counseling rooms. HISHIDA (2012) thinks the meaning of dolls in Sand Play Therapy as a scapegoat for the clients which shoulders clients' sufferings vicariously. They are used to sweep the sufferings away. But, in historical viewing, there was another way of using dolls: they were used to invite gods in them and treated as spirits themselves. They were thought to be a kind of image which is the home of god. In regard to Sand Play Therapy, Kawai (1991) emphasizes the significance of the spirit of land which dwells in the sand box. The spirit is related to the Soul, the infinity on which Hillman, J. (1982) talks about. And when we think about the dolls as that to invite gods, they have also the meaning to have relationship with the infinity, as the spirit of land, in Sand Play Therapy. Then, Dolls have both meaning to sweep sufferings away and to have connection with the infinity. Because dolls have these two aspects, clients are ensured and opened to creativity at the same time in the Sand Play Therapy. (193 words)