Dianne Gammage

Playful Awakening

Releasing the Gift of Play in Your Life

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Describes personal accounts of healing through Buddhist psychotherapy and the arts therapies, in particular, play and dramatherapy to showcase highly effective, multi-dimensional therapeutic techniques. This book is suitable for counsellors and psychotherapists and those interested in the fields of therapy and spirituality, especially Buddhism.

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This eloquent ode to keeping a place for playfulness in adulthood explores the importance of play for leading a happy, authentic and harmonious life. Inspired by a plethora of writers and artists as well as the Core Process psychotherapy model, it reveals how play helps us understand ourselves, heal from hardships, and live life to the full.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. August 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 318g
• ISBN-13: 9781849051507
• ISBN-10: 184905150X
• Artikelnr.: 42797520

Autorenporträt

Di Gammage. Foreword by Stuart Brown MD

Inhaltsangabe

Prologue. Act One. 1. The Universality of Play. 2. Towards a Definition. 3.
The Cloak. 4. Play the Weaver. Act Two. 5. Falling Asleep. 6. The Day of
the Square Yellow Sun - Obstacles to Play. 7. Deadly Play. 8. The Shadow
Side of Play. Act Three. 9. The Call from the Great Below - Aspiration to
Awaken. 10. Manifestations of Play. 11. Play for Surviving, Play for
Thriving. 12. Staying Awake.