On the work by Dr Margaret Lowenfeld

During clinical work as a Child Psychotherapist, my attention has been drawn to particular elements in the play of children whose emotional disturbance is coupled with severe learning disabilities.

Characteristically confused concepts of space, and of movement as direction with duration, emerge, and together with degrees of failure to hold points of spatial reference, to relate or differentiate parts and wholes, or to comprehend time or sequencing, are accompanied by high levels of anxiety.