Overview

The power of play, so central to psychoanalytic theory and practice, is conjoined to the social psychological or socio-politically coloured concept of power, giving rise to many fruitful discussions of how these concepts manifest themselves in clinical work with children, groups and adults. The inspiration for this book was the 3-section EFPP conference in Copenhagen in May 2007 with the main theme ""Play and Power"". At the conference and in the book, this theme is presented both inside and outside the therapeutic space. It is amply illustrated in clinical cases from individual psychotherapies with children and adults and from group analysis. Most of the examples are with hateful or resigned children and adults who have been exposed to extremely damaging or unhelpful environments, and who demonstrate convincingly some of the devastating consequences that abuse of power in the real world may have. Play and power are also explored in the broader context of the community, however.

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Author:   Liselotte Grunbaum ,  Karen Vibeke Mortensen
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.540kg
ISBN:  

9780367106850

ISBN 10:   036710685
Pages:   206
Publication Date:   14 June 2019
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

The EFPP Book Series , Foreword , Some Brief Organisational Perspectives , Introduction , Transformation through play: Living with the traumas of the past , The power of play—a comment on Monica Lanyado’s article: ‘Transformation through play: Living with the traumas of the past’ , Has play the power to change group and patients in group analysis? , A commentary on Peter Ramsing’s article ‘Has play the power to change group and patients in group analysis?’ , The power of hate in therapy , Survival and helplessness in empty space 1 , The power to play with movement, vibrations and rhythms when language emerges , The return of the absent father , Power and play: A tale of denigration and idealisation , Research in psychoanalytic psychotherapy with children— an enterprise in need of power?

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