The power of optimism / Steve Gross. A closer look at play / Stuart Brown and Madelyn Eberle -- Play and the default mode : interpersonal neurobiology, self, and creativity / Aldrich Chan and Daniel J. Siegel -- How love opens creativity, play, and the arts through early right-brain development / Allan Schore and Terry Marks-Tarlow -- Play, creativity, and movement vocabulary / Pat Ogden -- A cross-cultural and cross-disciplinary perspective on play / Theresa Kestly -- Creativity in the training of psychotherapists / Louis Cozolino -- Awakening clinical intuition : creativity and play / Terry Marks-Tarlow -- Trauma, attachment, and creativity / Paula Thomson -- Resonance, synchrony and empathic attunement : musical dimensions of psychotherapy / Victoria Stevens -- Playing with someone who loves you : creating safety and joyful parent-child connection with theraplay / Phyllis B. Booth, Dafna Lender, and Sandra Lindaman -- PLAY and the construction of creativity, cleverness, and reversal of ADHD in our social brains / Jaak Panksepp -- Nesting dolls : a playful way to illustrate a valuable intervention in couples therapy / Marion F. Solomon -- Rage, comedy, and creativity in theater / Jonathan Lynn -- Rage underlying humor in psychotherapy / Rita Lynn -- Developing resilience with the improviser's mindset : getting people out of their stuck places / Zoe Galvez and Betsy Crouch -- Cultivating curiosity, creativity, confidence, and self-awareness through mindful group therapy for children and adolescents / Bonnie Goldstein -- The power of optimism / Steve Gross.
Summary:
Distinguished clinicians demonstrate how play and creativity have everything to do with the deepest healing, growth, and personal transformation. Through play, as children, we learn the rules and relationships of culture and expand our tolerance of emotions--areas of life "training" that overlap with psychotherapy. Here leading writers illuminate what play and creativity mean for the healing process at any stage of life.
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