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Playing peek-a-boo, hopscotch or baseball; listening to rock and roll, Sondheim, or Sebelius; reading romance novels or watching a Shakespearian play—what do they all have in common? All are expressions of one of the most ubiquitous and intriguing human activities—play. Play is not random, carefree action, free from the psychic restraints of more mundane human pursuits. Like all other thought and behavior it is molded by the forces of the mind and the environment into nearly endless forms which fascinate us from shortly after birth until the end of life.
A mode of coping with conflicts, developmental demands, deprivation, loss, and yearnings throughout the life cycle. Albert Solnit(1)
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Colarusso, C.A. (1994). Play in Adulthood. In: Fulfillment in Adulthood. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-6509-7_9
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