The Importance of Play: A Child Psychotherapist's View

Anne Alvarez; Asha Phillips

doi:10.1017/S1360641798001579

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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.

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