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"forbidden Games." Post-traumatic Child's Play. Lenore C. Terr. Pp. 741-760.
The play of twelve psychically traumatized children and one traumatized play were noted: compulsive repetitiveness, unconscious link to the traumatic event, literalness, failure to relieve anxiety, wide age range of players, varying lage time prior to its development, carrying power to involve nontraumatized children, contagion to new generations, danger, art and talk as alternative modes of playing, and usefulness of tracing post-traumatic play to an earlier trauma. The