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The psychotherapist must negotiate the translation of cultural experience from the world of the child in therapy to the play of the therapeutic world. In order to achieve such a translation, therapists must grapple with their own culture and experience as well as with that of the children they treat, demonstrating to the children that the world has meaning which can be put into words—all this through the chaos of child's play and amidst the chaos of the world to be translated.