Play and The Heart’s Refusal to Harden
Play and the Heart’s Refusal to Harden challenges the belief that play is something we outgrow. Drawing from psychology, play therapy, education, social critique, and personal experience, Lisa Kosena Forbes explores how cultures recruit us into seriousness, productivity, and disconnection—and how pl...
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| description | Play and the Heart’s Refusal to Harden challenges the belief that play is something we outgrow. Drawing from psychology, play therapy, education, social critique, and personal experience, Lisa Kosena Forbes explores how cultures recruit us into seriousness, productivity, and disconnection—and how play helps us resist.
This is not a book about becoming more playful for the sake of having fun. It is a book about remaining alive in a world that often asks us to harden. Through stories, humor, research, and reflection, Forbes examines why so many adults lose access to play, how social systems shape our relationship with aliveness, and why play can be a powerful act of curiosity, connection, imagination, and hope. For anyone who feels exhausted, disconnected, overwhelmed, or stuck in survival mode, this book offers a different question: not “How can I play more?” but “What conditions help people come alive?” |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1773822026-06-11T19:37:48Z Play and The Heart’s Refusal to Harden Forbes, Lisa Kosena play, playfulness, social critique, mental well-being, play as resistance, culture and society thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JM Psychology::JMA Psychological theory, systems, schools and viewpoints::JMAP Positive psychology Play and the Heart’s Refusal to Harden challenges the belief that play is something we outgrow. Drawing from psychology, play therapy, education, social critique, and personal experience, Lisa Kosena Forbes explores how cultures recruit us into seriousness, productivity, and disconnection—and how play helps us resist. This is not a book about becoming more playful for the sake of having fun. It is a book about remaining alive in a world that often asks us to harden. Through stories, humor, research, and reflection, Forbes examines why so many adults lose access to play, how social systems shape our relationship with aliveness, and why play can be a powerful act of curiosity, connection, imagination, and hope. For anyone who feels exhausted, disconnected, overwhelmed, or stuck in survival mode, this book offers a different question: not “How can I play more?” but “What conditions help people come alive?” Published 2026-06-11T19:37:45Z 2026-06-11T19:37:45Z 2026-06-11 book 978-1-105-19605-8 978-1-105-19599-0 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/177382 eng image/png Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://playstorypress.org/books/play-and-the-hearts-refusal-to-harden/ https://playstorypress.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Cover-Play-and-the-Heart_s-Refusal-to-Harden-digital-small.png Play Story Press Play Story Press https://doi.org/10.17613/j2eca-p9s85 https://doi.org/10.17613/j2eca-p9s85 b81bccd1-e4f6-45a3-a336-f32dd4e6af5d 978-1-105-19605-8 978-1-105-19599-0 ScholarLed Play Story Press Pittsburgh, PA open access |
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