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Just Child’s Play…
Small toys are better than big ones for therapeutic play. The child, having a world in miniature before it, quickly “builds up” this world from situations in the grown-up sized universe it lives in. Also the small toys give a child a sense of power and adequacy which is often lacking by very reason of the “bigness” of the grown up world.

Tavistock [Square] Clinic, c. 1905-1980. Rockefeller Foundation records; Photographs – Series 100-1000; England – Series 401; Medical Sciences – Subseries 401.A; Rockefeller Archive Center.