ART OF RELATIONSHIP

The Art of Relationship by Garry Landreth



The Art of Relationship by Garry Landreth

Introduction

The Art of Relationship book written by Garry Landreth, discusses the ways of counseling students and providing therapy to them. It provides detailed information about the therapeutic relationship with children. In this book, Landreth has stressed the understanding of a child's world. The author has described the play in an outstanding manner. This book tells us about two things, at first sight poor compatibility of children with one another. Secondly, it discusses the play therapy which can be practiced with children. This book can be used as a practical guide for practicing play therapy with children, and at the same time, the leisure philosophical treat about the child's life and soul (Utay, 1991).

Summary of the book

In this book the author has explained that when a child is small, he becomes interested in the adult community which he feels is something different from his own world. It explains the time of more than two centuries ago. In the middle Ages, at that time a child was perceived as a small adult, while the difference were only of size rather than the concept of childhood as providing awareness of the nature of childhood (Garry, 2002). This distinguishes a child from an adult, even younger. In the middle age, such awareness was not there. Therefore, once a child could do without the constant care of his mother, a nurse, he belonged to adult society (Tyndall, 1999). The 18th century realized that the qualitative difference between children is that it is easier to train and educate while the result is quite fast and often persists for life. The English Enlightenment interested in the child as seeing it as a great object of education. In the 19th century, learning was there to appreciate not only the child but also the qualitative features of his personality. Childhood is the golden age of the individual, permanently lost, but a memorable one. Childhood talent, and his spirituality, its purity, and freshness of perception of the world all that lost as a child matures.

With time, the importance of childhood has increased, but took a romantic flair to it. Freud has shown tremendous importance of comfortable, happy childhood for mental health in society (Waterland, 1970). It became clear that education and training represent the nature of unconscious motives and needs; these also reflect the forgotten ...