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Show Children's Problems Solved by Study of Puppet Shows New York. Children's worries about love, marriage and even sex are being solved for a group of little patients at Bellevue hospital here by puppet shows. These puppet shows represent for children the problem plays which parents see on Broadway. Broad-way. This use of puppet shows was described de-scribed to members of the American Amer-ican Or'ihopsychialric association meeting here by Dr. Lauretta Bender Ben-der and Adolph Woltman of .the psychiatric division of Bellevue hospital. hos-pital. Just as the grown-up audience dis cusses the problem of John and Mary on the stage, the children discuss dis-cuss with each other and the psychiatrist psy-chiatrist the problems of the puppet characters. Through such discussion, discus-sion, by children or grown-ups, comes better understanding of their own problems. With a little help from the psychiatrist, the children are thei. able to find the best way out of their difficulties. The puppet pup-pet shows are designed to include all the problems that worry children chil-dren and keep them from growing up unhappily. |