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9781583919675

The Metaphor of Play: Origin and Breakdown of Personal Being

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    9781583919675

  • ISBN10:

    1583919678

  • Edition: 3rd
  • Format: Nonspecific Binding
  • Copyright: 2005-09-29
  • Publisher: Routledge

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Personality disorder can be conceived as the result of a disruption of the development of self. This thoroughly updated edition ofThe Metaphor of Playexamines 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 pre-school child, and a mental activity similar to it in the adult, is necessary to the growth of a healthy self. The three sections of the book: Development, Disruption and Amplification and Integration introduce such concepts as the expectational field, paradoxical restoration, reversal, value and fit, and coupling, amplification and representation. This highly readable and lucid presentation of the role of play in the development of self will be of interest not only to therapists but also to those interested in the larger issues of mind and consciousness.

Table of Contents

Foreword ix
Glen Gabbard
Preface xii
Acknowledgements xiii
PART I Development
1(76)
Play and the sense of self
3(4)
The secret
7(8)
The self as double
15(5)
I and the other
20(7)
The role of toys
27(3)
Two playrooms
30(11)
Fragments of space and of self
41(10)
Play, coherence and continuity
51(11)
Value and fit
62(15)
PART II Disruption
77(82)
Body feeling and disjunction
79(9)
Stimulus entrapment
88(9)
Transference and trauma
97(7)
Reversals
104(10)
The expectational field
114(12)
Restoration
126(8)
Impasse: Paradoxical restoration
134(9)
False self
143(6)
The mask
149(10)
PART III Amplification and integration
159(52)
A drive to play
161(9)
Coupling, amplification and representation
170(11)
Empathy
181(9)
Dissolving the trauma
190(12)
A self-organizing system
202(9)
Notes 211(16)
References 227(18)
Author index 245(6)
Subject index 251

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