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The Sensitive Child
By Margaret Lowenfeld
One of the profound discoveries of modern life is the dependence of temperament upon bodily structure. For long it has been accepted that certain bodily build...
Emotional & Intellectual Development
By Margaret Lowenfeld
What I have planned in this first lecture is to put before you certain basic facts concerning the normal course of development of children which you can use a...
The Adolescents Search for Identity
By Margaret Lowenfeld
My task is to attempt to present an approach to adolescent problems, which may seem an unusual one. My theme is the adolescent in 1966: what is his situation?...
Psychogenic factors in Disease in Childhood
By Margaret Lowenfeld
Consideration of the attitude of mankind towards disease and physical suffering, shows the existence of two streams of thought. In early days religion and, in...
Asthma in Childhood
By Margaret Lowenfeld
So much has been written about asthma, and even asthma in childhood, that it is impossible to make an adequate review of it. I propose therefore instead to ma...
The Nature of the Primary System
By Margaret Lowenfeld
For the past twenty years, we have been studying children by methods the aim of which was to enable the children to talk, as it were, without the use of langu...
Poleidoblocs
By Margaret Lowenfeld
In setting out to teach mathematics to children or to design a mathematics learning programme for a school system, the situation confronting the teacher, dire...
Child Psychiatry and Children’s Medicine
By Margaret Lowenfeld
The subject I have been asked to put before you today is a discussion of the relation between Child Psychiatry and Children’s Medicine. I submit that th...
Group Play Therapy
By Margaret Lowenfeld
There is the diagnostic play group, in which the behavior of children at play both in regard to each other and their relation to material is observed, and the...
Training of Child Psychotherapists
By Margaret Lowenfeld
Before we proceed to the question of training in child psychotherapy, it is essential to spend a few minutes considering the nature of child psychotherapy its...
Understanding the Child
By Margaret Lowenfeld
Behind every child’s failure lies the failure of a parent and one of the most frequent causes of this tragedy is the gulf of misunderstanding between the ch...
Violence and Power
By Margaret Lowenfeld
One of the characteristics of many small children is the violence of their attacks of screaming (as infants) throwing objects and at times banging heads again...
Play in the Psycho therapy of Childhood
By Margaret Lowenfeld
Theories have been put forward concerning children’s play which relate it to phylogeny and to an impulse towards preparation for life.
Nature of Children’s Phantasy
By Margaret Lowenfeld
I propose this evening to demonstrate to you a form of psychotherapeutic treatment which I have successfully employed in dealing with children and adolescents...
Objective Record of Children’s Phantasies
By Margaret Lowenfeld
The material of children’s thought differs in certain important particulars from the material available for adult thought. It is subjective, limited, connec...
Structure of the Mento-Emotional Processes
By Margaret Lowenfeld
I have before me today a very difficult task and one I feel I shall only very partially be able to fill. It is with considerable difference I approach it at a...
Control of Heart Disease in Childhood
By Margaret Lowenfeld
One of the most serious issues presented to practical medicine today is the problem of cardiac disease in the young. By the estimate of Dr. Carey Coombs the ...
Organisation and the Rheumatic Child
By Margaret Lowenfeld
RHEUMATISM in childhood has been known since the early nineteenth century, but it is only within recent years that the numerical extent of the disease has bee...
Types of Children
By Margaret Lowenfeld
Lectures in aid of the Children’s Clinic, which is now evacuate from London, exists to help parents and teachers to an understanding of all forms of childre...