When adults think about recreation, they all too often focus on regimented workouts at the gym or a weekend at luxury spa. In this insightful new book Dr. Lenore Terr demonstrates that adults can clear their minds, recapture the optimism of youth and measurably improve the psychological quality of their adult lives by learning to play with the abandon they experienced as children. Terr points out the links between childhood games and adult activities and explains how play can become a natural part of everyday life. In an easy-going, fully accessible style, BEYOND LOVE AND WORK gives readers an exciting new perspective on the game of life and an unique "play-book" that will help them come out winners.
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Sarah Sarai "The Seattle Times Book Review" Terr explores life's most accessible reward....This quietly reassuring and compelling book will nudge your inner kite-flier outside to a windy field.
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Lenore Terr is a clinical professor of psychiatry at the medical scholl of the University of California and the author of TOO SCARED TO CRY and UNCHAINED MEMORIES.
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This is another great book by Dr. Lenore Terr. Her book shows the reader how play is a central part of our lives, and as part of our history as children and adults. Dr. Terr's book provides her readers a way of rediscovering that world when "work" and "play" were not necessarily seperate entities. I recommend this book for all readers who are interested in this topic. It's a well written, thoughtful and interesting to read.
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I'm just writing a note about an interesting book that I've just read. I don't know if it's out yet, but a friend of mine lent me a copy of "Beyond Love and Work..." by L. Terr. It's an interesting look at the art of being "forever young." I reccomend this book to all who are interested in regaining a child-like sense of wonder in their adult lives.
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A thought provoking book for all audiences
11 Dec 1998
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This is another great book by Dr. Lenore Terr. Her book shows the reader how play is a central part of our lives, and as part of our history as children and adults. Dr. Terr's book provides her readers a way of rediscovering that world when "work" and "play" were not necessarily seperate entities. I recommend this book for all readers who are interested in this topic. It's a well written, thoughtful and interesting to read.
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All work and no play make adults dull adults
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I'm just writing a note about an interesting book that I've just read. I don't know if it's out yet, but a friend of mine lent me a copy of "Beyond Love and Work..." by L. Terr. It's an interesting look at the art of being "forever young." I reccomend this book to all who are interested in regaining a child-like sense of wonder in their adult lives.
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