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how creative fantasy motivates development

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English
Pages
292

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The symbolic impetus: how creative fantasy motivates development
2001, Free Association Books
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Table of Contents

Machine generated contents note: Introduction 1
Part I: Symbolic Fantasies that Foster Normal
Development
1 Parent-Infant "Chemistry": The Double Bond 29
2 The Waking Dream of Infancy 50
3 Realization in Infancy 68
4 The Beginning of Make-Believe in Early Childhood 94
5 The Invisible Friend in the Preschool Period 114
6 The Social Realm in Middle Childhood 129
7 Rehearsals of Identity in Early Adolescence 148
Part II: When Development Stumbles: The Healing Power of Symbols
8 The Chemistry and Alchemy of the Psychotherapeutic Relationship 173
9 Rediscovering Pretend 195
10 Imaginary Companions as Inner Healers 209
11 Community as Metaphor and Reality 222
12 Play and the Emergence of Cultural Attitudes 235
Part III: Summing Up
13 Explaining an Amazing Transformation:
The Symbolic Analysis of a Classic Case 251.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [269]-280) and index.

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London, New York

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
154.3
Library of Congress
BF723.S94 S74 2001, BF723.S94S74 2001

The Physical Object

Pagination
xix, 292 p.
Number of pages
292

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL4018162M
ISBN 10
1853435368, 185343535X
LCCN
2001391451
OCLC/WorldCat
46809798
Library Thing
5591794
Goodreads
5098492

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