Play and power / editors, Karen Vibeke Mortensen and Liselotte Grünbaum.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Print version record.

Transformation through play : Living with the traumas of the past / Monica Lanyado -- The power of play -- a comment on Monica Lanyado's article: 'Transformation through play: Living with the traumas of the past' / Liselotte Grünbaum -- Has play the power to change group and patients in group analysis? / Peter Ramsing -- A commentary on Peter Ramsing's article 'Has play the power to change group and patients in group analysis?'/ Jacinta Kennedy -- The power of hate in therapy / Mette Kjaer Barfort -- Survival and helplessness in empty space / Liselotte Grünbaum -- The power to play with movement, vibrations and rhythms when language emerges / Chantal Lheureux-Davidse -- The return of the absent father / Jacob Segal -- Power and play : A tale of denigration and idealisation / Gerhard Wilke -- Research in psychoanalytic psychotherapy with children -- an enterprise in need of power? / Karen Vibeke Mortensen.

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 w

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