num_pages: 221
description: Shows how borderline psychiatric patients can be treated by understanding their sense of self and the fragility of their sense of existence. Meares believes that the play of the pre-school child, and a mental activity similar to it in the adult, is necessary to the growth of a healthy self.
language: English
title: The Metaphor of Play: Disruption and Restoration in the Borderline Experience
titlecomplete: The Metaphor of Play: Disruption and Restoration in the Borderline Experience
genres: Psychology, Psychoanalysis
ratings_count: 16
publisher: Jason Aronson, Inc.