| Sandbox therapy is a psychological counseling and treatment technique that uses sandbox imagery to present the visitor’s inner world,discover their psychological problems,alleviate internal conflicts,achieve problem-solving,and promote personality improvement.n response to the increasing psychological health needs of the whole society,this topic is dedicated to the theoretical construction of artistic psychological counseling and treatment,and focuses on the sandbox therapy that has rapidly become popular in the practical field.The paper takes the imagery in sandbox games as the theoretical perspective and Jungian analytical psychology as the argumentation perspective,focusing on analyzing the psychological healing mechanism of sandbox imagery,and exploring the realization path of sandbox imagery for self connection-physical and mental harmony and unity.Research suggests that imagery,as a psychological representation of the combination of meaning and imagery,is filled with a rich emotional experience,becoming a symbol for individuals to interact with each other,perceive things,and express their will to life.Through the imagery displayed on the sand table,the visitor’s inner psychological scene is coupled with the concrete sand painting scene.With the rich meaning and symbolism of the sand table imagery,it helps the visitor overcome the dilemma of "unable to express themselves" and "unable to fully express themselves".There are three ways in which the sand table image can achieve self connection: firstly,as a channel between communication consciousness and unconsciousness,it coordinates the internal psychological conflicts of the subject;Secondly,as a carrier of energy attachment,it drives the dredging and transfer of psychological energy,maintaining the balanced development of energy between psychological structures;Thirdly,as the object of consciousness organization experience,it leads consciousness through two stages: pre meaning development and meaning development,allowing individuals to expand their self-awareness and integrate their body and mind,thereby promoting the process of individual naturalization.The article is divided into four chapters in structure.The first chapter clarifies the concept of sand table image,and discusses the characteristics of sand table image and its significance for realizing self connection from the perspective of psychoanalysis school’s mental health view by analyzing the participation process of image in sand table games.The second,third,and fourth chapters are the main parts of the paper,which respectively discuss the three paths through which imagery achieves self connectivity in sandbox games.Chapter 2 explores the connection and transformation of imagery between individual psychological structures,with a focus on analyzing imagery as a readable means of unconscious psychological content.The implicit expression of individual and collective unconscious psychological content becomes a necessary condition for visitors to achieve self connection.Chapter 3 starts with the use of imagery as a carrier of psychological energy,demonstrating that sandbox imagery achieves the expression and transfer of psychological energy through its shuttle transformation in the psychological structure,revealing its effective way of sorting out the emotional context of an individual’s internal depression,and becoming the basic path for individuals to achieve self connection.Chapter 4 demonstrates the visitor’s understanding and realization of the symbolic meaning of the sand table image through the sand table reflection stage,updating the individual’s self-awareness structure,expanding the boundaries of self-awareness,and ultimately achieving active connectivity of all aspects of the individual’s existence,catalyzing the integrated development of the individual’s body,psychology,and inner spirit. |