The Symbolic Impetus

How Creative Fantasy Motivates Development
Author(s): Charles Stewart
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Free Association Books, United Kingdom
Imprint: Free Association Books
ISBN-13: 9781853435355, 978-1853435355

Synopsis

This title describes the symbolic process in child's play at each stage from infancy onwards. In addition it shows how particular symbols can facilitate the healing of blocks that may arise in each stage of psychological development. The book is in two parts, In part one, each of the chapters describes a new phase of the symbolic process as it emerges in typical fantasies that accompany a stage of normal development. In part two, each chapter is devoted to the exposition of the particular healing role played by symbols at different stages of development in psychotherapy with infants, children, adolescents and adults.