Dibs: In Search of Self : Personality Development in Play Therapy - Hardcover

Axline, Virginia Mae

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0395073715 ISBN 13: 9780395073711

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1965

Synopsis

Account of a deeply disturbed five-year-old's attempt to find his identity and of his emergence from psychotherapy as a whole human being

About this title

From the Publisher

As a former teacher-turned-editor, who read DIBS many times before even coming to work here at Ballantine, I feel very connected to this book. The author is a leading authority on play therapy and the treatment of emotionally disturbed children. Dibs is one of these lost children. The story takes us through his long journey from being labeled as "mentally defective," to emerging as a gifted and lovable young man. Whether you're a teacher, a parent, a psychologist, or just someone who loves to actually feel what they're reading, DIBS is for you.

--Laura Paczosa, Editorial Assistant

From the Inside Flap

of child therapy. Dibs will not talk. He will not play. He has locked himself in a very special prison. And he is alone. This is the true story of how he learned to reach out for the sunshine, for life . . . how he came to the breathless discovery of himself that brought him back to the world of other children.

Edition details

• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Publication date: 1965
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0395073715
• ISBN 13: 9780395073711
• Binding: Hardcover