Meaning making and playing in psychoanalytic therapies |
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| Authors: | Jean B Sanville MSS PhD BCD |
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| Institution: | 1. Founding member of the Los Angles Institute and Society for Psychoanalytic Studies ,;2. Member of the International Psychoanalytic Association ,;3. Continuing education faculty , Smith College School for Social Work , |
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| Abstract: | Abstract This paper explores Freud's idea of the transference as a playground, and Winnicott's assertion that psychotherapy is a subspecies of play. In the context of what those authors called “intermediate” space, a person discovers ways of interpreting or attributing meanings to inner feelings, thoughts, and being as he engages in dialogue with others. Whether with children or adults, psychoanalytic therapies have developed a specialized form of playing in the service of this necessary communication with another, as the case examples will illustrate. |
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