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Child Psychotherapy and the Games Children Play: A Psychoanalytic Toolkit for Middle Childhood

Author(s) : Celine Maroudas

Table of Contents

1. Introduction

Part I - Towards a Developmental Reformulation of Middle Childhood
2. Latency: A misnomer? Reconnecting the disconnect in the concept of Latency
3. The intra-psychic and inter-psychic grammar of middle childhood: a contemporary psychodynamic developmental reformulation

Part II - The Place of Play, Playing and Game-Play in Child Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy: Historical Background and Contemporary Questions of Clinical Technique and Practice
4. Historical background on technique in child psychoanalytic psychotherapy: The place of play, playing and game-play
5. Questions of play, playing and game-play

Part III - Clinical Theoretical Formulation of Game-Play in the Psychoanalytic Playroom
6. 50 Shades of Game-play
7. Game-play and the triangular and polygonal space in psychotherapy
8. The playing field: the transference-countertransference matrix and transformations in game

9. Conclusion