Our basic proposal within the psychotherapeutic work with children and adolescents relates to the reconstruction of their inner self-image. We were able to verify that due to the need to reconstruct the image of the “broken toy” because that symbolizes the meaning of a certain conflict.

That reconstruction does correspond to a specific phase of development of the ego, which is blocked due to corporal tensions. Our objective is to reconstruct the libidinal flow and the deep feeling of being loved.

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 the toy is healthy, and that the playing by itself means the self-regulation and ‘grounding’ of the child.”

In addition, 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, and what does exist are dangerous ways of playing.

Finally, it means to make room for the inherent uneasiness before an identity, the search for the process of conquering it, to enable the child to find the freedom and the creativity by means of the “constructed toy.”

Brasilda Rocha is mainly active on the following areas: observation and measurement of toys that correspond to the type of blocked energy related to the psychic and corporal development of the child; to study the prophylaxis of neurosis, and to work within therapeutic and pedagogical function of the toy, in the prevention of the armors.

She is dedicated to the clinical practice, and the systematic research in the area of corporal psychotherapy; She concentrates on children and adolescents, teaching and preparing new psychotherapists, spreading the theory and practice of these functions in several states of Brazil and abroad.