Virginia Axline Quotes

• Enter into children's play and you will find the place where their minds, hearts, and souls meet.

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  Children, Heart, Games

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• Play Therapy is based upon the fact that play is the child's natural medium of self-expression. It is an opportunity which is given to the child to 'play out' his feelings and problems just as, in certain types of adult therapy, an individual 'talks out' his difficulties.

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  Children, Opportunity, Self

  Virginia Mae Axline, (2013). “Play Therapy - The Inner Dynamics of Childhood”, p.15, Read Books Ltd

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• Perhaps it is easier to understand that even though we do not have the wisdom to enumerate the reasons for the behavior of another person, we can grant that each individual does have their private world of meaning, conceived out of the integrity and dignity of their personality.

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  Integrity, Personality, Doe

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• Asking questions in therapy would be so helpful if anyone ever answered them accurately. But no one ever does.

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  Asking Questions, Doe, Would Be

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• ... when horizons grow or diminish within a person the distances are not measurable by other people.

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  Distance, People, Horizon

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