Top 5 Quotes & Sayings by Virginia Axline

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Last updated on November 8, 2024.
Virginia Axline

Virginia Mae Axline was a psychologist and one of the pioneers in the use of play therapy. She wrote the book Dibs in Search of Self. She was also the author of Play Therapy, published in 1947.

Author | 1911 - 1988
Perhaps it is easier to understand that even though we do not have the wisdom to enumerate the reasons for the behavior of another person, we can grant that each individual does have their private world of meaning, conceived out of the integrity and dignity of their personality.
Asking questions in therapy would be so helpful if anyone ever answered them accurately. But no one ever does.
... when horizons grow or diminish within a person the distances are not measurable by other people. — © Virginia Axline
... when horizons grow or diminish within a person the distances are not measurable by other people.
Enter into children's play and you will find the place where their minds, hearts, and souls meet.
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.
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