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"How can a psychologist's use of play therapy allow a child's submerged psyche to emerge and begin journeying toward a selfhood capable of expressing its own idiosyncratic needs and desires? In this classical account of child therapy, Dibs In Search of Self, Virginia M. Axline retells the tale of a young six year old boy's valiant struggle to establish his own identity despite his father and mother's damaging style of parenting. Axline's remarkable psychoanalytic intervention permits Dibs to discover himself in a space of security where he is neither too quickly judged, nor too excessively praised. It must be a space where he is foremost and so her trained commentary only repeats his..."

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