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Margaret Lowenfeld: An Appreciation of her Contribution to Child Psychology
By Phyllis M. Traill and John Hood-Williams
For the Journal of Child Psychotherapy – Vol. 3. No.3 December 1973
Dr. Margaret Lowenfeld died on February 2nd, 1973, aged alm...
Lowenfeld Memorial Seminar
Background Information
Paternal
Family had large estates in Poland 40 miles north of Krakow, the village was called Chrzynow. Father was strongly attached to Poland and went bac...
Poleidoblocs: How to begin
By Ville Andersen, D.I.C.P. on the work of Margaret Lowenfeld
The first boxes of Poleidoblocs G and A were available for purchase from the beginning of 1958, and then only a sma...
Some Notes for a Theory of Emotion
Some Notes for a Theory of Emotion
By Dr Margaret Lowenfeld
It has been said that man cannot become fully cognisant of any experience until he has given to that experience a nam...
A Study of Nonverbal Communication of Children
by Dr Margaret Lowenfeld
In the main the theoretical basis of current child psychiatry has been built up upon material gathered in the analysis of adults and adapted for the treatm...
Five Shapes and Six Colours
By Harry Johnson on the Mosaic Test
There are 300 of these pieces in each set. The subject is told “make anything you like with the pieces.” Ordinarily, no further comment i...
Lowenfeld Poleidoblocs
This is a detailed manual for the use of Lowenfeld Poleidoblocs. The manual was written by Ville Andersen, Lowenfeld’s colleague and partner in 1969.
The document includes ...
Margaret Lowenfeld in the New World: An Appreciation
By Rhoda Metraux on the life of Margaret Lowenfeld
Margaret Lowenfeld first visited the United States in 1950. She arrived in early April and departed for home on June 18th. In...
Lowenfeld Kaleidoblocs – Instructions for adults
by Dr Margaret Lowenfeld
Experience during the last world war impressed many observers with the discrepancy between the abilities of people as shown when subjected to psychological...
Child Psychotherapy and Margaret Lowenfeld
Child Psychotherapy and Margaret Lowenfeld By Therese Woodcock
Clinical Seminar at the Institute of Family Psychiatry, Ipswich: 18 July 1994
This afternoon I wish to explore with y...
Cleanliness and Tidiness
By Dr. Margaret Lowenfeld
Report of the first of four lectures in a course of eight on “Common Difficulties in Normal Children” arranged by The Institute of Child Psychol...
Evacuation
By Margaret Lowenfeld
Part of her post-war writings
Any action which arises as a total response to a pressing emergency must produce problems. When the action is new in kind, a rea...
The Proto System – Freud’s theory of the psyche-soma
By Dr Margaret Lowenfeld
13/6/1956
According to the theory of psycho-analysis, the fundamental energy-drives and patterns of behaviour in the human being take the form of instincts...
God and Man
By Dr Margaret Lowenfeld
Reading the discussions in this page about God and man, it has come home to me forcibly that there is something new and powerful that the child-psychologis...
Immaturity and Maturity
By Dr Margaret Lowenfeld
(Co-Director of the Institute of Child Psychology)
(Report of the first of a series of eight lectures on “Some Problems of Adolescence” delivered at th...
Modification of Mosaic Test for Non-Western Peoples
By Dr Margaret Lowenfeld
Since the constituent parts of the L.M.T. have been made up of materials familiar to Western peoples, certain assumptions in regard to them will be impl...
The Non-Verbal ‘Thinking’ of Children
by Dr. Margaret Lowenfeld
FOR the past 20 years, we have been studying children using methods to enable them to talk, as it were, without the use of language. A careful and deta...
The Adolescent Outlook
by Dr. Margaret Lowenfeld
(Report of the fourth Lecture of a series of eight Lectures on “some problems of Adolescence” delivered at Friends House, London, N.W.1.)
It is my aim...