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3 unusual facts about Virginia Axline


Dibs in Search of Self

Dibs in Search of Self is a story by clinical psychologist and author Virginia Axline published in 1964.

Identified patient

In Dibs, an account of a child therapy, Virginia Axline considered that perhaps the parents, "quite unconsciously...chose to see Dibs as a mental defective rather than as an intensified personification of their own emotional and social inadequacy".

Play therapy

Virginia Axline adapted Carl Rogers's theories to child therapy in 1946 and is widely considered the founder of this therapy.



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