DYANE N. SHERWOOD, PhD
JUNGIAN PSYCHOANALYST, IAAP-Certified in Adult and in Child Analysis
CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGIST CA9197, OH6693, IL- 071010869
CERTIFIED SANDPLAY THERAPIST, TEACHING MEMBER CST-T STA/ISST
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
2018
"Like the Play of Children"
A personal and professional history of Dr. Sherwood's experience with sandplay. Her own sandplay process led to a deepening of her personal analysis and an embodied experience of transformation. The title of the chapter is taken from a medieval alchemical text that likens the art of alchemy to the play of children.
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In: Into the Heart of Sandplay, eds. Dyane N. Sherwood and Betty C. Jackson. Oberlin, OH: Analytical Psychology Press: Sandplay Editions.
2018
Into the Heart of Sandplay
Co-edited with Betty C. Jackson.
Oberlin, OH: Sandplay Editions, an imprint of Analytical Psychology Press.
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​An international group of Teaching Members of the International Society for Sandplay Therapy (ISST) tell the stories of their own discoveries of this unique, expressive therapy developed by Dora Kalff, who based her work on her deep relationship to Eastern meditative traditions, the Analytical Psychology of C.G. Jung, and a gift for entering the inner world of children. Although Sandplay Therapy was originally used in child therapy, it quickly spread to work with adults in a variety of settings and is now used internationally, often in conjunction with analytic treatment.
2015
Weaving/Reweaving"
Closing Address STA Assembly 2015
Sandplay therapy through the lens of weaving, with themes of making links, interconnection, working with the hands. Ovid's version of the myth of Athena and Arachne is reimagined as it would have been told by Arachne.
In: Journal of Sandplay Therapy 24:2, 21-43.
2012
"A Grandmother's Apron and the Holocaust"
Review of: Rachel Feferman, Golden Hands: Drawings and Reflections by Rachel Feferman, afterword by Linda Brownrigg, Los Altos Hills: Anderson-Lovelae, 2009.
Rachel Feferman inherited the apron her beloved grandmother - a refugee from the Nazis - had made as a young woman, showing her fine skill as a seamstress. Feferman was haunted by intrusive images of the holocaust, which are featured in this book, along with paintings of her grandmother's apron.
In: Jung Journal: Culture & Psyche 6:1, 128-132
2011
"The Embodied Psyche: Movement, Sensation, Affect"
This chapter focuses on recent cognitive and neuroimaging research, including topics such as the nature of empathy, mirror neurons, and von Economo neurons. Contemporary brain research is consistent with many of Jung's theories, yet we do not depend of hard science to validate what we learn about the mind. Conversely, one must be cautious about overinterpreting the "hard" evidence to arrive at a theory of mind.
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In: Body Mind and Healing after Jung: A space of questions.
ed. Raya Jones. London: Routledge, 2011.
2010
"Inner Cosmologies:Exhibits of Works by C.G. Jung and Wassily Kandinsky. New York 2009"
A major retrospective of Kandinsky's work on view at the Guggenheim was concurrent with an exhibition of C.G. Jung's visionary Red Book at the Ruben Museum. This review of the two exhibits focuses on the inner cosmologies of two contemporaries who did not know one another but were both true to their inner experience. Kandinsky's interest in shamanism, discovered by the late art historian Peg Weiss, is offered as evidence of Kandinsky's formative interest in visionary experience, which paralleled Jung's visionary experiences recorded in the Red Book.
In: Jung Journal: Culture & Psyche 4:1, 10-18.
2010
"Training Analysis"
This chapter describes the importance of the analyst's-in-training own analysis, illustrated with the author's own training experience and those recounted to her by Joseph L. Henderson, who analyzed with Jung. She described the ending of her own analysis after alchemical imagery and symbolism came to carry the intense cathexis that her personal analysis had held for many years. The image that came to mind as symbolic of this shift is that of a woman riding a fish, found on the Gundestrup Cauldron.
In: Jungian Psychoanalysis. ed. Murray Stein.
Open Court Press, 2010.
2007
"The traditional Plains Indian vision quest:
Initiation and Individuation"
In this article, the Lakota cosmology and the vision quest are described, based upon the first hand accounts by Lakota and the author's personal experience of undergoing four vision quests on the Pineridge reservation in South Dakota, under the mentorship of the Lakota elder and teacher, Pansy Hawkwing.
In: Initiation: The Living Reality of an Archetype.
T. Kirsch, V. Rutter, and T. Singer (eds).
London and New York, Routledge.
2007
"Alchemical Images, Implicit Communication, and Transitional Space"
Alchemcial paintings in the Splendor Solis are discussed in terms of Winnicott's transitional space, new research on implicit affective communications, and recent research on the neurobiology of emotion.
In: Alchemy, Spring 74, 233-262.
2006
"Response to Margaret Wilkinson"
This was a talk given at the 50th Anniversary Conference of the Journal of Analytical Psychology in Oxford, England, in response to an address by Margaret Wilkinson., and published in the J. of Analytical Psychology.
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Wilkinson's paper was on the clinical relevance of new research in neuroscience. In response, I much appreciated her address, including the importance of giving priority to the patient's affect over on making insightful interpretations. I pointed out that much of the research at the time should be considered preliminary and that we needed to keep in mind Jung's emphasis on the reality of the psyche and not look to neuroscience to validate our work as clinicians.
2003
Transformation of the Psyche:
The Symbolic Alchemy of the Splendor Solis
Joseph L. Henderson was an extraordinary man and analyst. He did his personal analysis with Jung, and he analyzed and trained many of the analysts who were a generation ahead of me at the C.G. Jung Institute of San Francisco. I was fortunate to have him as my main Control Analyst, and this book emerged from our consulation after I became an analyst.
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This book explores the beautiful illuminated paintings of the Splendor Solis and relates them to transformation in analysis, using clinical examples. These images make alchemy much more accessible to most readers, and the book is meant as an opening to the readers creative imagination--not as a definitive interpretation of the paintings.
2003
"Joe the Alchemist"
The image on the left, "The Projection of the Tincture from the Heart of the King," is from an alchemical manuscript belonging to Glasgow University. It shows the King as the Sun who gives from his heart the the tincture, the secret substance which the alchemists aspired to create. He is surrounded by figures with the signs of the planets, who receive the tincture just as the planets receive light from the sun.
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In this article, in a special issue devoted to Joseph L. Henderson on his 100th birthday, I described him as I knew him and likened him to the the king in this image, who rules not through the assertion of authority by from the heart.
In: The San Francisco Jung Institute Library Journal 22:2, 19-26.
1997
"Cancer, New Age Guilt, and the Dark Feminine"
In this article I describe a vision of healing that occurred shortly before I was diagnosed with breast cancer.
The article goes on to discuss the human tendency to look for something one has done wrong when inflicted with an illness, which can be seen as the ego's attempt to master a situation which is actually beyond the ego's control.
Further, the medical and psychiatric literature which claimed that women who get breast cancer had bad relationships with their mothers is shown to be mere speculation. New Age ideas are found to be no more valid, but another form of blaming the person who is ill. These tendencies are again seen as defenses against the fear of illness and a false belief that one is responsible when becoming ill and could have done something different. The work of Susan Sontag on such superstitions in relation to tuberculosis is discussed.
In: The Ancient Heritage: The Role of Shamanism in Analytical Psychology.
London and New York: Routledge, 1997.