title: When the toys take over.
abstract: When a 60-year-old man with mild learning difficulties began obsessively collecting soft toys after his mother died, David O'Driscoll used the work of psychoanalyst Donald Winnicott to help the client manage his feelings of grief and loss.
mesh_terms: D003376:Counseling; D006117:Grief; D006801:Humans; D007859:Learning Disabilities / Q000523:psychology*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010988:Play and Playthings