Clients Quote by Paul Watzlawick

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…

— Virginia Axline

“In role-playing games, SF and fantasy have exploded into psychotherapy.”

— Brian Aldiss - Trillion Year Spree

“Dr. Stuart Brown, a psychiatrist and founder of the National Institute for Play, says that we are hardwired to play and that to neglect…

— Nick Vujicic

“In his TED Talk, entitled The Decline of Play and the Rise of Mental Disorders, he will open your eyes in several ways. In…

— Terry Marselle

The opposite of play isn’t work. It’s depression. To play is to act out and be willful, exultant and committed as if one is…

— Brian Sutton-Smith

“simply interacting with others—playing a game, for example—offers new stimuli and helps prevent the depression that can come with solitude.”

— Hector Garcia Puigcerver

I think it's therapeutic when we play. It's just like therapy.

— Sam McCandless

In classrooms full of students who range from brilliant to sullen disaffection, it's games - and often games alone - that I've seen engage…

— Tom Chatfield

Play is a subset of voluntary behaviour involving a selective mechanism which reverses the usual contingencies of power so as to permit the subject…

— Brian Sutton-Smith

Game, noun: Any unserious occupation designed for the relaxation of busy people and the distraction of idle ones. It's used to take people to…

— Etienne Bonnot de Condillac

“Games lubricate the body and mind.”

— Benjamin Franklin

“Understanding men is not playing games!”

— Tia Truthteller