Quotes About Play Therapy

#1. 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.

Virginia Axline

#2. It's been like therapy to be able to play music and not embarrass my children too much. They've come to a bunch of the shows. It's kind of cool. I'm glad they like it.

Robert Longo

#3. I want to work with the teachers' union. But as I said out there, we have to put the kids first and we are letting down a generation of California children. It's not acceptable.

Meg Whitman

#4. Sometimes travel is merely an opportunity taken when you can.

Ian Frazier

#5. Sometimes it is very difficult to keep in mind the fact that the parents, too, have reasons for what they do
have reasons, locked in the depths of their personalities, for their inability to love, to understand, to give of themselves to their children.

Virginia Mae Axline

#6. BDSM isn't about play, not for pleasure purists.
It's our own fucked up version of therapy. If we weren't fucked up, sick and twisted this shit wouldn't get us off.

Erica Chilson

#7. When I step onto the court, I don't have to think about anything. If I have a problem off the court, I find that after I play, my mind is clearer and I can come up with a better solution. It's like therapy. It relaxes me and allows me to solve problems.

Michael Jordan

#8. The essence of mathematics is in its freedom.

Georg Cantor

#9. Imagination is tapping into the subconscious in a form of open play. That is why art or music therapy, which encourages a person to take up brushes and paint or an instrument, and just express themselves, is so powerful.

Phil 'Philosofree' Cheney

#10. I like watching
from inside, as if locked away
and stealing the distinct pleasure
of a high school marching band drum section's
pure perfection. How stoically they play
in the exhaust of a fire engine's wake.

Kristen Henderson

#11. Now, performing is second nature and I love every second of it. It is a very emotional thing when I can't play a song; maybe I'm hitting on something that I don't want to deal with. All of it is so personal. It is like therapy.

Vanessa Carlton

#12. I thought if I can do something more playful and light like my play BEYOND THERAPY, it might be a money maker. I think one of the reasons BEYOND THERAPY has legs - it's been very successful for me around the country - is because it's a friendly play, rather sunny.

Christopher Durang

#13. There are forces within the Democratic Party who want us to sound like kinder, gentler Republicans.

Paul Wellstone

#14. I think it's therapeutic when we play. It's just like therapy.

Sam McCandless

#15. I've always loved sports and hockey is a sport I play as much as I can. I love it. In a weird way it's like church and therapy and exercise all rolled up into one. I mean when I play hockey I don't think about anything.

Michael Vartan

#16. He wanted to play accordion on something of mine and I said you can play accordion, but I want you to play piano and organ on some stuff. He came over a couple times a week for two weeks and gave me therapy as to whether I should do The Thorns or not.

Matthew Sweet

#17. A bold, vigorous assault has won many a faltering cause.

Ira C. Eaker

#18. [Children] just cannot be sad too long, it is not in them, as children mourn in little bits here and there like patchwork in their lives.

Nancy E. Turner