Assessment of Hakoniwa Exercise in the Moroccan and Japanese Environment: some clinical remarks
Assessment of Hakoniwa Exercise in the Moroccan and Japanese Environment: some clinical remarks
Dr. Emostafa Rezrazi
(presented at the WCP World Regional Congress of Psychotherapy- 29-31 March 2012- Marrakech
Hakoniwa/ Sandplay therapy, is an action-oriented and artistic psychotherapy practiced widely in Japan and widely in the United states.
Carmichael defines Sand-Play therapy as a singular emotional for of individualized expression of the inter and the intra-psychic world of the child. This expression allows to the child to take his or he own internal world to express it externally in the sand play” (Carmichael, Karla Delle: Sand Play as an Elementary School Strategy.1994).
Melanie Klein, Anna Freud, Erik Erikson and others have supported the use of toys, and miniature for diagnostic and therapeutic functions.
Beyond the theoretical background of this therapeutic technique, since Hakoniwa Has been originated on the basis of a Jungian platform. sandplay has served effectively is assisting treating trauma .
Hakoniwa / Sand Play hands out also in: defining language barriers, overcoming language barriers and extending alternatives to verbal expression.
• In Japan, it was successfully approved since the Japanese language balances between On-yomi and Kun-yomi (two ways of reading and pronouncing the ideographic characters, or kanji, of written Japanese), and this frustrates the process of true repression, or the aphanisis of the subject in relation to language
• In Morocco, it was helpful at the current experimental stage mainly within two situations: to assist child to express their trauma more unreservedly, beyond the resistance linguistic register of Moroccan Arabic. Sand secondly, to smooth the communication between the mostly French speaking professional and the grassroots originated patients.
In our laboratory research, we have worked on the opportunity to develop Hakoniwa to become both a tools for diagnostic and therapy.
Results remain interesting but incomplete yet in this stage.
In this communication I would like to share with professional my findings that could be summarized in four items:
• Hakoniwa/ Sand Play is a supporting tool for diagnostic
• Hakoniwa/ Sand Play is a supporting tool for therapy
• Hakoniwa/ Sand Play cannot supply an entire therapeutic outcome, and should be run under a more established therapeutic practice