ABSTRACT
The context is the meaning, and the very process of education has many therapeutic possibilities that can be enlisted in the work of student counselling services. While student counsellors come from a number of theoretical backgrounds there is a commonly held view of the importance of the symbolic nature of learning and what this might represent for the development of the student. The process of interpretation of the two most important physical functions that of taking in and giving out, plays an important part in the development of mental processes. Developing from his work on transitional phenomena D. W. Winnicott developed the concept of playing, to describe the process whereby a child begins to differentiate between what is subjective, and inside, and what is objective, and outside. At the same time as Winnicott was developing his concept of playing, Irene Caspari was developing a way of working with children who had learning problems which she called Educational Therapy.
