by Thérèse Woodcock

Dr Margaret Lowenfeld was one of the 20th century’s great pioneers of child psychotherapy. Her distinctive contribution to the field was based on her view of the primacy of communication in therapy. both of our means of expression and how we understand another’s communication.

Communication is a topical phenomenon, so perhaps we could begin by thinking about the substance of what people think they are doing when they are communicating within the therapeutic setting. Perhaps some of you would like to make some suggestions as to what we think we are most likely to want to communicate if we were wanting to talk to our friend, our counsellor, or our therapist?