Play and Power

by Grünbaum, Liselotte

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Title Statements

Full title :Play and Power.

Summary

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 with children and adults and from group analysis. Most of the examples are with hateful or resigned children and adults who have been exposed to extremely damaging or unhelpful environments, and who demonstrate convincingly some of the devastating consequences that abuse of power in the real world may have. Play and power are also explored in the broader context of the community, however. In relation to society at large, psychoanalytic psychotherapy has important contributions to offer society, and we need playful creativity and power to bring forward our knowledge about it.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:Â©2010.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Karnac Books, Published by Karnac for the European Federation for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
Place of Publication:London
Language:eng
Publication Date:Â©2010.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (278 pages).

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781849408561, 1849408564
oclc:on1097164306
LC Classification:RJ505.P6 ǂb P53 2010eb
Dewey Decimal:618.9289

Cover -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- Some Brief Organisational Perspectives -- About The Author -- Introduction -- Chapter One: Transformation through play: Living with the traumas of the past -- Discussion: The power of play-a comment on Monica Lanyado's article: 'Transformation through play: Living with the traumas of the past' -- Chapter Two: Has play the power to change group and patients in group analysis? -- Discussion: A commentary on Peter Ramsing's article 'Has play the power to change group and patients in group analysis?' -- Chapter Three: The power of hate in therapy -- Chapter Four: Survival and helplessness in empty space -- Chapter Five: The power to play with movement, vibrations and rhythms when language emerges -- Chapter Six: The return of the absent father -- Chapter Seven: Power and play: A tale of denigration and idealisation -- Chapter Eight: Research in psychoanalytic psychotherapy with children-an enterprise in need of power? -- References.