Dibs in Search of Self: Personality Development in Play Therapy

When renowned psychotherapist Virginia Axline first met Dibs at his New York school, he was a withdrawn little boy, disconnected from the world around him. He refused to speak, wouldn’t play, and isolated himself, resisting every effort to engage with him.

Axline became his last hope. In Dibs in Search of Self, she recounts the powerful journey of how, through weekly play therapy sessions over the course of a year, Dibs’s remarkable character, and the reasons behind his silence, were gradually uncovered.

This classic work of child therapy is a deeply moving story of transformation, showing the profound impact of therapy on a child’s life.