1st Edition

Children's Phantasies The Shaping of Relationships

By Otto Weininger Copyright 1989
336 Pages
by Routledge

336 Pages
by Routledge

336 Pages
by Routledge

Otto Weininger illustrates the manifestations of unconscious phantasy in children - normal, neurotic or psychotic - in various settings such as playgroups, ordinary schools or special schools for disturbed children, the family milieu or play therapy. He uses Melanie Klein's developmental theory and shows the evolutions of phantasies in their content, in the way they are symbolizes, and their... Read more
Foreword , Preface , Introduction , Good, bad and enough , Splitting and idealization , Feeling good, having enough and not fearing the other , Aggression, expression and love , Aggression and regression , Symbol formation, symbolic equation and the development of interests , Reparation and restoration , Anxiety and independence , An uneasy bedtime and two bad mornings , Achieving an independent self , Feeling, thought and creativity , Psychotic moments, thinking and reasoning , Reparation, sublimation, learning and play with art materials , Play psychotherapy , Some basic patterns of play psychotherapy , The snake family

Biography

Otto Weininger