"Piaget states that roughly from the age of two to the age of eleven children's characteristic activity is that of make believe play, and he calls this 'Symbolic Representation'. In play children work over their experiences, and their enactments are a symbol representing actual experience. By the age of eleven, Piaget says a child is normally able to think in concepts. Children's writing reflects this development. Much that they write at six or seven or eight is more like poetry than prose in that it is a gloss upon experience rather than formulation itself"
"...Poetry, in common with all literature, is as much a rehearsal of experience as is make believe play (Here is trial without the possibility of error)".
Britton goes on to suggest that poems deal with poets coming to terms with ideas and events. Symbolic representataions of experience. This must mean that all forms of art could be described as a form of therapy.
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