Play and therapeutic action - Multiple perspectives

Authors
Citation
Me. Scott, Play and therapeutic action - Multiple perspectives, PSYCHOAN ST, 53, 1998, pp. 94-101
Citations number
4
Language
INGLESE
art.tipo
Article
Categorie Soggetti
Current Book Contents
ISSN journal
0079-7308
Volume
53
Year of publication
1998
Pages
94 - 101
Database
ISI
SICI code
0079-7308(1998)53:<94:PATA-M>2.0.ZU;2-4
Abstract
Children's play that goes unanalyzed within a psychoanalysis, yet leads to therapeutic change, is contrasted with interpreted play that leads to consc ious insight. The therapeutic and development facilitating effects of unana lyzed play suggest that substantial analytic work goes on unconsciously. Te chnical issues arise, therefore, if play is conceptualized as a therapeutic force in its own right. Developmental considerations and inhibitions in pl oy become greater considerations in analytic technique. Two clinical vignet tes from the analyses of a latency-age girl and boy are presented to illust rate unanalyzed play as an agent in development and mastery of anxieties.