How to design and equip a mentalization-based play therapy room

Designing and equipping a play therapy room as a differentiated tool in a psychodynamic approach to child psychotherapy is seldom discussed. This article sketches out the equipment and furnishing of a play therapy room to be used for mentalization-based psychodynamic psychotherapy and gives examples of the use of such a room in practice. © 2018 The American Academy of Psychodynamic Psychiatry and Psychoanalysis.