How it Feels to be You - Objects, Play and Child Psychotherapy (Cottis Tamsin (UKCP registered Child Psychotherapist/Clinical supervisor))(Paperback / softback)

Through the stories of individual children, this book illuminates the process of creative, play based child psychotherapy. Each chapter focuses on a specific issue that brings a child or a young person to the therapy room and explores the use and meaning of particular objects and 'object games'. Through these insightful and dynamic stories, readers will gain a profound understanding of the healing power of play in the context of child psychotherapy. The importance and influence Attachment Theory, through the work of Donald Winnicott, alongside that of Anne Alvarez and Margot Sunderland, is woven through the book. Composite case material, derived from the author's many years of clinical practice, demonstrates the centrality of the therapeutic relationship, in concert with approaches which foreground play and creativity in bringing about healing. Chapters address childhood challenges such
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