The Inability to Play. Pre-Psychotherapy in Children Who Do Not Play

Abstract

Noga Levine keini*

The central and well-documented role of play capacity in normative development and in interventions with children has been extensively described in professional literature. This paper focuses on conditions in which that capacity is disrupted. I review two characteristic forms of impaired play ability observed in children and subsequently propose - and illustrate - a therapeutic approach intended to facilitate the restoration of play capacity, enabling the child to use the therapy itself as a play milieu (play therapy).

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