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The Importance of Play: A Child Psychotherapist's View

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 September 1998

Anne Alvarez  and
Asha Phillips
Anne Alvarez
Affiliation:
Child & Family Department, Tavistock Clinic, 120 Belsize Lane, London NW3 5BA
Asha Phillips
Affiliation:
Child & Family Department, Tavistock Clinic, 120 Belsize Lane, London NW3 5BA
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Abstract

The authors examine the historical framework within which child psychotherapists have used play. They discuss developments in theory and technique influenced by advances in psychoanalytic thinking, child development studies, and clinical work with severely deprived and disturbed patients.

Keywords

Playpsychotherapyinfant observationchild development
Type
Forum on Play
Information
Child Psychology and Psychiatry Review , Volume 3 , Issue 3 , September 1998 , pp. 99 - 103
Copyright
© 1998 Association for Child Psychology and Psychiatry

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