Dibs in Search of Self - Virginia M. Axline
220 pages
Type: Biography, psychology
Time: 1-2 hours (im not done yet, but almost)
Synopsis: About a Kid (Dibs) who won't play with any of the other kids in school, wont talk to his parents, and is all alone. It is written by Axline, who is the psychologist who worked with him. You learn alot about him, trying to find out why he is the wya he is, how his family is, etc...
Excerpt: "Cats live in this house, the fighting man has a cat, a real cat. And here is the duck. THe duck has no pond and the duck wants a pond. You watch. Two ducks, there are. Here is the big duck and it is brave. Here is the littel duck, but not so brave. The big duck may have a nice safe pond someplace. But this little duck does not have a pond of its own and it does want its own pond. But now these two ducks have met and they are standing here together and theya re both watching the truck drive up outside the window"
Thoughts: An amazing book. it's hard to believe, this child is only 6. He starts off not saying a thing, no one can reach him. Then all of a sudden he starts waking up. He is speaking during play therapy, hence ^^^^ the convo about the ducks. you can see the childishness in his speech, but then u see theres so much more meaning behind it. The doctor who wrote this had permission from the mother to record al interviews, all the play times, which is where these come from.