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By Thérèse Woodcock

Firstly, the Lowenfeld Mosaics enables the young person to engage in something which does not require him directly to explain himself. In the meantime, this enables the therapist to observe the young person’s style of reaction and action in a practical activity, which naturally displays him, in two ways First, there is the design or picture that he makes [product], and secondly, the therapist can observe, how he goes about the task of making it [the process]..Inevitably, when doing a mosaic, a person will be expressing himself, which in the context of this particular encounter, will include his inner concerns.

By Margaret Lowenfeld

In the development of any science there is a peculiarly intimate relationship between the structure of new instruments of investigation and the type of knowledge which is gained thereby.

Lowenfeld Mosaic Test in Child Psychotherapy

This paper by Thérèse Woodcock Woodcock, Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist and Trainer in Lowenfeld Projective Play Therapy, delivered at a Cambridge conference and published originally in the British Journal of Projective Psychology describes briefly how to use Mosaics in psychotherapy and gives several illustrated case histories.