Abstract
A 5-year-old boy with pervasive developmental disorder came to the remedial education center at our college to receive play therapy. He at first withdrew into his shell. But he began to communicate with his therapist after finding and identifying with a miniature turtle. He then took interest in the sandplay box and pitted his baby turtle against various insects (played by the therapist) in the box. At last the boy himself, as a baby turtle, entered into the sandplay box, as a womb, and came into the world over and over again, as his therapist watched him affectionately. He then poured sand onto the floor, extended it and swam there. It was as if he was living in his own creation myth with his therapist. Working through this process, he secured his object-relational self.
