f psychotherapy have contributed to the unique development of play therapyùfor example out of (and specifically distinguished from) the psychoanalytic tradition in the work of Anna Freud and Melanie Klein and from the person/client-centered work of Carl Rogers (1954) in the work of Axline (1969) and Lowenfeld (1991).
According to the British Association of Play Therapists (2003), child-psychotherapy founders Anna Freud and Melanie Klein were among the first theorists to recognize the power of play as a means for children to express their unconscious world of thoughts, perceptions, feelings, and experiences. Both sought to transfer the Freudian psychoanalytical approach to the analysis of children. Through their use of imaginative play, drawings, dreams, and daydreams in play therapy, Freud and Klein wanted to uncover and interpret the unconscious thought processe
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