Under Deadman's Skin : Discovering the Meaning of Children's Violent Play

Introduction 00(1) Vivian Gussin Paley The Suicide Game 1(5) Murderer 6(2) Rated R 8(4) The Party 12(4) Runaways 16(4) Obsessed 20(8) Reserved 28(2) He Knows I Know He Knows 30(3) The F-word 33(5) Anaconda 38(4) Vulnerable Bad Guys, Electric, and Poisonous Snakes 42(3) A Vulnerable Writer 45(2) Strangled 47(1) The Rules of Violence 48(4) Girls! 52(8) The White Ninja 60(2) The Shooting Game 62(3) Hippo and Baboon 65(6) Bottled Up 71(3) Baba Yaga 74(3) Forgiveness 77(4) Keeping Calm 81(3) Half Bulldog, Half Chihuahua 84(2) Exorcising the Exorcist 86(5) Tortured 91(3) Mama's Little Baby 94(4) Puppy Power 98(5) The Baby Business 103(5) The Finger 108(3) The Car Race 111(2) A Cold Duckling, a School Shooting, and a Home for a Dead Butterfly 113(4) Placing Blame 117(6) Empathy 123(2) A Big, Big Teacher 125(3) Epilogue 128(3) Acknowledgments 131