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Title: The Metaphor of Play: Disruption and Restoration in the Borderline Experience
Publisher: Jason Aronson, Inc.
Publication Date: 1993
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0876682751
ISBN 13: 9780876682753
Binding: hardcover
Condition: Very Good

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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.

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Russell Meares is Emeritus Professor of Psychitary at the University of Sydney and leads a program at Westmead Hospital, Sydney for the treatment of, and research into, borderline personality.

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