"The toy promotes the evolution of the personality
How to evaluate the type of toy and psychodiagnosis of children and adolescents"

Abstract

Our purpose is to approach the theoretical and practical concepts of body therapy with children and adolescents in order to convert postures and attitudes into therapeutic procedures.

The psychotherapist or educator can lead the child to learn how to explore toys and their meaning in the development of their personality. The toy symbolizes the body and is used as an interpretation and/or intervention in the psychic and body process. It is instrumental in helping to localize the child’s body tension by using toys.

Introduction

The aim of children psychotherapy is to rescue their identity matrix, what we call “matrix renewal identity.” That would enable them to restore traumatic situations of emotional experiences in the first moments of life.

Methodology

Our basic proposal in the psychotherapeutic work with children and adolescents pertains to the internal image reconstruction, which we can confirm due to the need of reconstruction of the image of the “broken toy”, which symbolizes the meaning of a particular conflict. This reconstruction corresponds to a specific phase of the ego development, which is being blocked due to corporal tensions.

The phases of maturation can be divided into four groups that correspond to the four phases of the maturation cycle, or stages of development.

Results

During certain phase of psychic development certain anxieties happen and we have also verified that specific toys do appear.

When we compare the percentage data of toys, from 1991 to 2013, we can observe that there were no meaningful changes which indicate to us that the “energy of toy is healthy, and that the playing by itself means self-regulation and ‘grounding’ of the child.”

Schizoid Character

Oral Character

Psychopath Character

Hysterical Character

Conclusion

The major contribution of this work is on identifying and evaluating the toys that correspond to the type of blocked energy within the psychic and body development of the child. We come to the conclusion that “the toy symbolizes the body of the child and it can be utilized as an interpretation and/or intervention, without interrupting the energetic circuit.”

This work focus on the body tension of a child as she plays with a toy. Identifying the type of energy from each toy, starting with the assumption of what it represents in relation to the objects of the child, and where the conflicts are originated.

As therapists, we will detect the lack of motion in the rings of tension through the expression of that energy, so that a child can get back that capacity of relaxation and recovery of energy flow.

It is an important work, which contributes to the study of the prophylaxis of neurosis.

We have observed that there are not right or wrong toy for a certain child, but we can affirm that there are toys needed for the evolution of certain anxieties, and that they are a part of the child development. We also observed that there are no dangerous toys, but there are dangerous ways of playing.

Our scientific aim is to compare those basic ideas detected according to the characteristics of the toy, according to the phase of psychic evolution in order to make an operative proposal which propitiates a therapeutic process a faster and more effective evolution.