Deep Play - Exploring the Use of Depth in Psychotherapy with Children

ISBN 10: 184905777X / ISBN 13: 9781849057776

Editore: Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2015

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• Titolo: Deep Play - Exploring the Use of Depth in Psychotherapy with Children
• Editore: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
• Data di pubblicazione: 2015
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 184905777X
• ISBN 13: 9781849057776
• Rilegatura: Brossura
• Condizione: New

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Riassunto

Therapeutic deep play has the capacity for children to express deep emotions, overcome seemingly insurmountable issues and resolve serious problems. Working with children in this profound way, therapists are able to not only eliminate symptoms, but to change the very structure of how children live with themselves, their defense and belief systems.

The contributors to this book all work deeply, allowing children to take risks in a safe environment, and become fully absorbed in physical play. Chapters include play with deep sandboxes, clay, water, and various objects, and look at a range of pertinent case studies to demonstrate the therapeutic techniques in practice, alongside the theoretical concepts in which they are grounded. A new theoretical approach is established that takes from psychoanalysis as well as neuroscience and behaviourism, and offers a depth psychology approach in the treatment of children.

This will be a valuable resource for anyone working therapeutically with children through play, including play therapists, psychotherapists, psychologists, arts therapists, counsellors, social workers and family therapists.

Informazioni sull?autore

Dennis McCarthy is a licensed mental health counselor in New York state and is the director of Metamorfos Institute. He is a psychotherapist working with both children and adults and specializing in sandplay and dream work. Initially trained as a dancer, he weaves the body's innate urge to move into all of his work.