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The Metaphor of Play: Origin and Breakdown of Personal Being book cover

3rd Edition

The Metaphor of Play Origin and Breakdown of Personal Being

By Russell Meares Copyright 2005
272 Pages
by Routledge

268 Pages
by Routledge

268 Pages
by Routledge
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Personality disorder can be conceived as the result of a disruption on the development of self. This thoroughly updated edition of The Metaphor of Play  examines how those who have suffered such disruption can be treated by understanding their sense of self and the fragility of their sense of existence. Based on the Conversational Model, this book demonstrates that the play of a... Read more

Gabbard, Foreword. Part I: Development. Play and the Sense of Self. The Secret. The Self as Double. I and the Other. The Role of Toys. Two Playrooms. Fragments of Space and of Self. Play, Coherence and Continuity. Value and Fit. Part II: Disruption. Body Feeling and Disjunction. Stimulus Entrapment. Transference and Trauma. Reversals. The Expectational Field. Restoration. Impasse: Paradoxical Restoration. False Self. The Mask. Part III: Amplification and Integration. A Drive to Play. Coupling, Amplification and Representation. Empathy. Dissolving the Trauma. A Self Organising System.

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Russell Meares

In my Opinion The metaphor of play is a profoundly important book by one of the greatest contemporary thinkers and researchers in the field of psychotherapy. - Dougal Steel, Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry

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