VARIOUS FORMS OF PLAY IN THE PSYCHOANALYT IC PSYCHOTHERAPY

Play is a communication between two persons. Understanding play in the psychoanalytic psychotherapy opens new perspectives to perceive and u nderstand the interaction between analyst and patient. Disturbances in the ability to play manifest themselves in the collapse of the dialec tic of the reality and phantasy in the space of playing and the potent ial space. The different forms of successful play and of disturbed pla ying ability are described: the play in the development, the curative play, the play getting out of control and the posttraumatic play.