Play and Playfulness (eBook)

Developmental, Cultural, and Clinical Aspects

Monisha Akhtar (Herausgeber)

eBook Download: EPUB

2011
252 Seiten
Jason Aronson, Inc. (Verlag)
978-0-7657-0762-8 (ISBN)

Infos

Appearing nearly forty years after the last significant text on the topic, this book brings the psychoanalytic theory on play truly up to date and elucidates its significance for clinical work with the help of illustrative clinical vignettes.

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While the psychodynamic understanding of play and play's therapeutic potential was long restricted to the realm of children, Winnicott's work demonstrated the profound significance of the capacity to play for healthy mental functioning during adult life. Scattered writings of Erikson, Glenn, and Shopper notwithstanding, the early spark of understanding remained largely ill developed. In Play and Playfulness, the reader is offered an exciting and highly informative set of essays about the psychic area that lies between reality and unreality and between veracity and imagination. It is the area of paradox and creativity. It sustains the self, allows for ego-replenishing regressions, and adds to the joy of the vital and lived experience. This book provides an easy and readable passage to the valley of the transitional experience in which creative synthesis of reality and unreality leads to a world of vigor, enthusiasm, and liveliness. The cultural variations and the clinical implications of such an experience are thoroughly elucidated. The result is a volume replete with technical virtuosity, clinical relevance, and the basic and nearly self evident humane music of the day-to-day experience of life.

Autor

Monisha C. Akhtar, PhD, is a faculty member at the Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia, PA. She maintains a private practice in Ardmore, PA.

Inhalt

Part 1 Part I—DevelopmentChapter 2 Chapter 1—Self-Other Action Play: A Window into the Representational World of the InfantChapter 3 Chapter 2—Fathers and PlayChapter 4 Chapter 3—Adolescence as a Time to PlayPart 5 Part II—PsychopathologyChapter 6 Chapter 4—Neurotic Inhibitions of PlayChapter 7 Chapter 5—Normal and Pathological PlayfulnessChapter 8 Chapter 6—Remembering, Replaying, and Working Through: The Transformation of Trauma in Children's PlayPart 9 Part III—Sociocultural AspectsChapter 10 Chapter 7—Cultural Pathways to Understanding Children's Play: Mythology and FolkloreChapter 11 Chapter 8—Playing for Survival during the HolocaustChapter 12 Chapter 9—Play and CreativityChapter 13 Chapter 10—Play and Track II DiplomacyPart 14 Part IV—Technical ImplicationsChapter 15 Chapter 11—Aggression in Children: Origins, Manifestations, and Management through PlayChapter 16 Chapter 12—Play and Very Young Children in Object Relations Family TherapyChapter 17 Chapter 13—Playfulness in the Adult Analytic RelationshipChapter 18 References

Produkt-Details

• Co-Autor: Salman Akhtar, Ilene Sackler Lefcourt, Mali Mann, Jill Scharff, Vamık D. Volkan, Anni Bergman, Melvin Bornstein, Ira Brenner, Lucy Daniels, M. Hossein Etezady, Daniel M. A. Freeman, James Herzog, Christine Kieffer
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Allgemeine Psychologie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Entwicklungspsychologie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Familien- / Systemische Therapie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Psychoanalyse / Tiefenpsychologie
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Psychiatrie / Psychotherapie
• ISBN-10: 0-7657-0762-4 / 0765707624
• ISBN-13: 978-0-7657-0762-8 / 9780765707628