The Case For Make Believe
Saving Play in a Commercialized World
Will be published approx. on 26. June 2008
Book
Paperback/Softback
288 pages
978-1-56584-970-9 (ISBN)
Description
Gripping stories of children at home, school and in the therapist's office using make believe to grapple with real-life issues from entertaining kindergarten to the death of a sibling. In an age when toys come from television shows and dress-up means Disney costumes, Linn lays out the inextricable links between play, creativity and health, showing why society should protect children from corporations that aim to limit their imaginations.
Reviews / Votes
"A wonderful look at how playing can heal children, how in "pretend-worlds" they can find their truest selves. [Linn's] fierce advocacy for kids is on every page of this terrific book."-The Boston Globe
"[A] welcome addition to such books as D.W. Winnicott's Playing and Reality, Bruno
Bettleheim's The Uses of Enchantment, and Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi's Flow."
-Library Journal
"Linn brings invaluable expertise to this well-organized and straightforward exploration of a neglected subject."
-Booklist
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 210 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight
414 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-56584-970-9 (9781565849709)
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Person
Susan Linn, author of Consuming Kids: The Hostile Takeover of Childhood (The New Press), is a psychologist at Judge Baker Children's Center and Harvard Medical School in Boston. An award-winning ventriloquist internationally recognized for her pioneering work using puppet therapy with children, she was mentored by the late Fred Rogers.