About the Author
Lenore Terr, M.D., is clinical professor of psychiatry at the medical school of the University of California, San Francisco. She is the author of Too Scared to Cry and Unchained Memories. She won the American Psychiatric Association's Blanche F. Ittleson Award for her research on the kidnapped children of Chowchilla and other childhood trauma victims. Dr. Terr lives in San Francisco with her husband and is the mother of two grown children.
Table of Contents
Contents Preface
Procedures and Acknowledgments
1 Why Play? And How Do We Know We're Playing?
2 Revisiting the Lowest Rungs of the Play Ladder
3 Biological Reasons We Pick Certain Playgrounds and Ways of Playing
4 Play Built on Fantasies About Aggression or Sex
5 Rules of the Game, Tools in the Game, Fools for the Game
6 Adolescent Turning Points in Play
7 How Play Moves Through History and Around the World
8 Underplay, Overplay, and Cure Through Play
9 Play as Work, Play as Life
Notes
Bibliography
Index