ABSTRACT
The imaginative play of such out-of-control children tends to have very common themes – earthquakes, volcanoes, burning fires that never stop, floods that flood absolutely everything, biting, devouring, or being torn to pieces. These are such apt images for the urgent internal force that drives them to lash out. One little boy who, by the age of eight years, had broken one little girl’s finger and another’s arm, said, ‘My heart goes red, my blood goes red, and then I hit.’ This is actually an accurate physiological description (for an eight-year-old) of what happens in states of uncontrollable hyperarousal, as we shall see later in this book.
