Put Your Mother on the Ceiling: Children's Imagination Games - Softcover

De Mille, Richard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0939266695 ISBN 13: 9780939266692

Publisher: Gestalt Journal Press, 1955

Synopsis

Put Your Mother on the Ceiling Children use these imagination games that bring the worlds of facts and fantasy into harmony. With a parent or teacher as guide, children explore situations at school, home, and other settings. A reader writes: "This book is so much fun for children of all ages. I played the games in this book as a child, about fifteen years ago or more. It still sticks out in my mind as a great way to get your cr... Full description

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About the Author:

Richard de Mille received a Ph.D. in clinical and measurement psychology at the University of Southern California, where he worked in the Aptitudes Research Project, developing tests of social intelligence. He taught psychology at the University of Southern California and the University of California, Santa Barbara. He has published in scientific and scholarly journals such as Psychological Bulletin, Multivariate Behavioral Research, Educational &; Psychological Measurement, Teach-ers College Record, and American Anthropologist, and in popular periodicals from "This Week Magazine" to "Astounding Science Fiction." His books include "Castaneda's Journey" and "The Don Juan Papers," two critical studies of Carlos Castaneda's controversial Don Juan books. He is the son of Cecil B. de Mille, the motion-picture director, and before his academic career directed television shows in Hollywood. His book, "My Secret Mother" (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Inc.) is about his family.

About this edition

• Publisher: Gestalt Journal Press
• Publication date: 1955
• ISBN 10: 0939266695
• ISBN 13: 9780939266692
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 176