A Case Study of Sandplay Therapy for an Elderly Person Complaining of Depression

Carl Jung (C.G.Jung) said that the task in old age after middle age is to listen to one’ s inner voice and accept death as a process of completing oneself. In this study, a 72-year-old woman complaining of depression due to feelings of guilt for not taking good care of her children in an economically poor and poor environment was able to hear her own voice echoing from within in a free and protected space and a stable sandbox. After listening to it, you get to know your own life. The old man recognized and accepted the current situation and tried to resolve his attitude and acceptance toward his future life through the rite of passage process of pain, death, and rebirth in sand play. During the process of making the sandbox, the client embodied the thrill from her heart into the sandbox with her hands. In order to mediate depression in old age by reorganizing past experiences and discovering the meaning and transformation of perception of life that can positively accept various changes in old age, the important developmental tasks that must be performed in old age are divided into three stages. showed it The three starting tasks are: the first is to find one’ s true self and become free; the second is to identify the dark side of oneself. An unconscious aspect of yourself that you don’ t want to accept as part of. It is a task to meet them one by one, accept them as part of oneself, mature oneself, and move forward on the path to self-realization. Thirdly, in old age, it is to prepare for death, which is a task for the future. As in this case, when looking at human development from a life-long developmental perspective that continues from birth until death, old age is one of the overall development stages of a human being, and the therapist helps the client with the important tasks that must be performed as an elderly person. It is clearly shown as a stage of completing the end of life by demonstrating mother and son’ s unity with each other.