Main description:

* Draws on a wide range of psychoanalytic paradigms, from object relations to relational * Play is an important clinical tool in child therapy but rarely applied to adult psychoanalysis * Offers clear guidance to using concepts of play in psychoanalytic practice

Contents:

Acknowledgments Credits List Introduction 1. Playing in the Darkness: Use of the Object and Use of the Subject 2. Toward an Ethic of Play in Psychoanalysis 3. The Limits of Intimacy and the Intimacy of Limits: Play and the Internal Bad Object 4. The Paradox of Play in Mourning 5. A Theory of the Setting: The Transformation of Unrepresented Experience and Play 6. "I Want You to Be:" Thinking about Winnicott's View of Interpretation in Ontological and Epistemological Psychoanalysis 7. Donald Winnicott's Play and Stephen Mitchell's Developmental Tilt Hypothesis Reconsidered Index