
Play and Creativity in Psychotherapy
$50.31
- Hardcover
400 pages
- Release Date
8 December 2017
Summary
Experienced 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 such as Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Daniel J. Siegel, Jaak Panksepp, Allan Schore, Pat Ogden, and Louis Cozolino illuminate what play and cr…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780393711714 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0393711714 |
| Author: | Terry Marks-Tarlow, Daniel J. Siegel, Marion F. Solomon |
| Publisher: | WW Norton & Co |
| Imprint: | WW Norton & Co |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 400 |
| Release Date: | 8 December 2017 |
| Weight: | 809g |
| Dimensions: | 33mm x 165mm x 244mm |
| Series: | Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology |

Critics Review
Play and Creativity in Psychotherapy is a good resource for clinicians who may be skeptical about the concept of play in psychotherapy, yet may be burned out on traditional ways of doing therapy day after day. It provides a framework to approach the work from a different mindset, and perhaps breathe new life into clinical sessions.– “Psych Central”
Terry Marks-Tarlow
Terry Marks-Tarlow, PhD
Terry Marks-Tarlow, PhD, is a clinical psychologist in private practice in Santa Monica, California. She teaches affective neuroscience at Reiss Davis Child Study Center, is a research associate at the Institute of Fractal Research, and sits on the Advisory Board of the Global Alliance for Transformational Entertainment. She teaches yoga, dances, draws, and generally strives towards a balanced life through embodying her values.
Daniel J. Siegel, MD
Daniel J. Siegel, MD, is the Cofounder of Mind Your Brain, the Founder and Director of Education of the Mindsight Institute, and Founding Co-Director of the Mindful Awareness Research Center at UCLA. He is an international conference speaker and a NYTimes-bestselling author of books like Mind, The Mindful Therapist 2nd Edition, The Mindful Brain, Aware, and The Developing Mind. He is also the Founding Editor of the Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology (IPNB).
Marion Solomon, PhD
Marion Solomon, PhD, is a lecturer at the David Geffen School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry at UCLA. She is co-editor with Dan Siegel of several books in the IPNB Series, including Healing Trauma and How People Change.
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