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DIBS. "Sometimes he ... of him. In her book, Virginia Axline proves that the
therapy by the play is a way of curing people such as Dibs. ...
Inhertitance. Topic?"He had a proper home?and proper schooling" Dibs and Farley
do the right thing by bringing Nugget up as their son. ...
DiBz. Dibs was a very young boy who had a lot of potential, even though everyone
thought he was mentally retarded. ... This is not seen at all with Dibs. ...
... Marriage is a binding contract and although Dibs is the inheritor of Allendale
(the family farm), though sadly she does not share the farming country spirit ...
... The first half of the play concerns a celebration - twins Girlie Delaney and Dibs
Hamilton are celebrating their 80th birthdays, and with the gathering of ...
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"Sometimes he sat mute and unmoving all morning or crawled about the schoolroom floor oblivious to the other children or to his teacher." The book Dibs is a testimony of a child who seemed to be mentally retarded because he has created his own world inside of him. In her book, Virginia Axline proves that the therapy by the play is a way of curing people such as Dibs. During her book, she gives lecture to the reader of a recording taken from the sessions with the little child. During this expose, we will develop Dib's relation with adults in particular his teachers, parents and grand mother. Then we will analyze another relation: the one with his therapist. In the second part the phenomena of rejection will be analyzed in both sides: in the mother and the father side but also with Dibs itself. Later, we will try to understand which role play therapy had occurred on Dibs change.
When the books starts, Dibs is in the school since two years. At the beginning he refused to talk. Sometimes he could stay dumb and still during an entire morning. Other times, he could have violent bout of anger when it was time to go back home, which provoked towards teachers and director of the school a big anxiety. Was he mentally retarded? Was he suffering of a mental illness since his birth? Did his brain have received a shock? No one knew, even his parents who always refused to talk about their son's attitude. But as the author, Virginia Axline, said "there was something about Dibs behavior that defied the teachers to categorize him, glibly and routinely, and send him on his way. His behavior was so uneven. At one time, he seemed to be extremely retarded mentally. Another time he would quickly and quietly do something that indicated he might even have superior intelligence" (Axline, Virginia Dibs in search of Self, 15). The staff meeting of class finally decide to help Dibs and to do something for him. It is at this point that the Doctor Virginia...
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