Neurobiology and the Therapeutic Action of Psychoanalytic Play Therapy with Children |
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Authors: | Email author" target="_blank">Alan?J?LevyEmail author |
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Institution: | (1) Loyola University Chicago, School of Social Work, 820 North Michigan Avenue, Chicago, IL 60611, USA |
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Abstract: | This paper presents neurobiological aspects of the therapeutic action of psychoanalytic play therapy. The author contends
that play integrates diverse modes of neural processing because of its inherently enactive and verbal nature. Admixtures of
new and familiar self/other configurations emerge, simultaneously shaping and fostering integration of procedural and declarative
modes of experience. Complex self-other configurations develop in play therapy because of its intrinsic integration of multiple
experiential modes. The paper includes an illustration of play treatment with a boy who presented with a disorganized attachment
pattern, an attendant deficit in affect regulation, and who manifested frank psychotic symptomatology. |
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