The Case For Make Believe by Susan Linn

The Case For Make Believe by Susan Linn

Gripping stories of children at home, school and in the therapist's office using make-believe to grapple with real-life issues from entering nursery school to the death of a sibling. In an age where toys come from television shows and dress-up means Disney costumes, Linn lays out the inextricable links between play, creativity and health, showing why society should protect children from corporations that aim to limit their imaginations.

"A wonderful look at how playing can heal children, how in “pretend-worlds” they can find their truest selves[Linn's] fierce advocacy for kids is on every page of this terrific book."
—The Boston Globe

"[A] welcome addition to such books as D.W. Winnicott's Playing and Reality, Bruno
Bettleheim's The Uses of Enchantment, and Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi's Flow."
—Library Journal

"Linn brings invaluable expertise to this well-organized and straightforward exploration of a neglected subject."
—Booklist

Susan Linn, author of Consuming Kids: The Hostile Takeover of Childhood (The New Press), is a psychologist at Judge Baker Children's Center and Harvard Medical School in Boston. An award-winning ventriloquist internationally recognized for her pioneering work using puppet therapy with children, she was mentored by the late Fred Rogers.

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ISBN 13	9781595584496
ISBN 10	1595584498
Titel	The Case For Make Believe
Autor	Susan Linn
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Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	The New Press
Erscheinungsjahr	2009-08-27
Seitenanzahl	258
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