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Original studies into playfulness

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Data collection Psychotherapy Wellbeing

What happens when a therapist lets themselves be playful with a client?

This study looks at playfulness as "use of self" in psychotherapy, a resource practitioners choose to draw on in the room, not a technique taught in a workshop. Where it opens a client up. Where it risks the opposite. How therapists learn to trust their own judgement about when.

Lead researcherChris Marshall
FieldPsychotherapy
Started2026
StatusData collection
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