Play Therapy - the Inner Dynamics of Childhood by Virginia Mae Axline

Author:Virginia Mae Axline [Axline, Virginia Mae]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781447425984
Google: _TP8ygAACAAJ
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Publisher: Read Books
Published: 2011-09-13T18:30:00+00:00

COMMENTS

Jean was referred to the clinic because of her fears and anxieties about going away from home or leaving her mother. This was Jean’s second visit to the clinic. During the first visit the therapist had given her a Stanford-Binet (L). At the beginning of the test the mother had to come into the testing room with the child. When Jean was halfway through the test, the mother asked her if she could go over to the waiting room until the test was finished and read one of the books she saw there. Jean permitted her mother to leave. The mother said later that that was the first time Jean had ever stayed with a stranger alone. Jean finished the test and scored an I.Q. of 138. She came back to the clinic three times after that. At the end of the third play contact, the mother said that Jean showed so much improvement that she did not think it necessary to bring her back again. She said that Jean would now go out and play with the other children in the neighborhood and stay out of her mother’s sight for a long time. She said they really thought she was “cured” when she went over to a little neighbor’s house for dinner alone one evening. And then another afternoon she went to another neighbor’s house to take her nap. According to the case history given by the mother, Jean had established toilet habits at an unusually early age.

Jean reported during her second play contact that her mother had let her drink milk out of her baby brother’s nursing bottle and had said that maybe she would get a “wetting doll” for Christmas.

During the second and third contacts she spent most of her time playing with the doll.

The repetition of words and phrases in her talk disappeared during the latter part of the first contact and was scarcely noticeable during the last contact. Jean’s mother said that she repeated herself when she was upset about something. That, too, improved outside the clinic.

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