By Thérèse Woodcock on the work of Dr Margaret Lowenfeld

We all understand that therapeutic work has to do with the personal experiences of the children and young people we see; we accept this without question. Most of us try to understand their present through assembling a picture of their past. usually through reports which have come with the child by talking to the adult figures who are most closely associated with them. and / or by asking the child to tell us directly. So the second point about therapeutic work is that it is work which is centred on expression, communication and understanding of personal experiences: thus the means by which these personal experiences are expressed and in what or whose terms these expressions are understood. become central to the therapeutic enterprise.