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

In this thought-provoking book, Celine Maroudas presents an intriguing developmental reappraisal of middle childhood, re-examining psychoanalytic approaches to psychotherapy with this age group and exploring the therapeutic power of games and play therapy in a psychoanalytic setting.

List 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

About the author

Celine Maroudas is a senior consultant child and adult psychoanalytic psychotherapist and clinical psychologist, and has worked for many years with children, their parents and with adult patients, in the public sector and in private practice, primarily in Israel. She is a clinical supervisor and teacher in a variety of advanced diploma programmes in psychoanalytic psychotherapy in Israel.

Product details

• Authors: Celine Maroudas
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 20.10.2025
• EAN: 9781032545066
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3254506-6
• No. of pages: 296
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Applied psychology; PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / Child & Adolescent, PSYCHOLOGY / Developmental / Child, Psychotherapy, Creative therapy (eg art, music, drama), Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology, Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology), Creative therapy / Expressive therapies, PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / Psychoanalysis