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Research Project
By Dr. Margaret Lowenfeld
During 25 years work, it has been found at I.C.P. that very considerable improvement, amounting in a certain proportion of cases to satisfactory cure, can...
World Pictures of Children
This book was kept in the collection of Ville Anderson, colleague and close friend of Margaret Lowenfeld. Ville Andersen trained under Margaret Lowenfeld at the I.C.P. in the early...
Unrealised Factors in Attitudes on Health
By Margaret Lowenfeld
It seems to me that a study of this kind gives a few suggestions, as have other team studies on the cultural pat- terns and personality characteristics of any...
Life of Margaret Lowenfeld
By Cathy Unwin
Lowenfeld, Margaret Frances Jane (1890-1973), Paediatrician, Child Psychiatrist and Child Psychotherapist, was born on 4th February 1890, in Lowndes Square, London, ...
Freedom and Discipline Part I
By Margaret Lowenfeld
Education is in these days very much concerned with the concepts of freedom and discipline and the controversies concerning them. These notes arise not out of...
Review of Mosaic Test
To Dr. Lowenfeld belongs the credit of having first described the technique now flown as play therapy, used for the diagnosis and treatment of the psychological disturbances of ch...
A Study of Non-Verbal Thought
By Margaret Lowenfeld
Although it is impossible, because of the width and variety of its range, to devise a formal definition for thought, it is generally held at present that ther...
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...
Study of Preverbal ‘Thinking’
By Margaret Lowenfeld
The subject of this paper is a child’s relation to his experience of his own body, his bodily sensations and movements, the things that happen to...
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.
Voluntary Enterprise in Medicine
By Margaret Lowenfeld
The author of this article is chiefly known for her work as a psycho-therapist. At the Institute of Child Psychology, of which she is honorary directo...
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...
Prospectus of Training Courses
By Margaret Lowenfeld
The Institute of Child Psychology offers facilities for training to men and women who are interested in the causation and relief of the psychological difficul...
Poleidoblocs in Infant Schools
By Margaret Lowenfeld
Poleidoblocs are a set of objects designed to call out certain reactions and responses in children. They are cut in shapes like those a child sees all around ...
Specific Language Disability
By Margaret Lowenfeld
SIR,—The annotation on specific language disability brings up a subject of considerable importance. Apart from the question of a possible neurological diso...
The Lowenfeld Mosaic Test Pamphlet
By Margaret Lowenfeld
The Lowenfeld Mosaic Test is a non-verbal technique in which the subject is presented with a set of small plastic tiles in five shapes and six colours and is ...
The Socially Maladjusted Child
By Margaret Lowenfeld
A small boy stands at the edge of the school playground looking longingly at a group of children playing twos and threes. He would so like to join them; he ki...
Communicating the Uncommunicable
By Thérèse Woodcock
Today I am going to tell you something about the use of an expressive tool called the Lowenfeld Mosaics. The Mosaics was devised by Dr Margaret Lowenfeld, a p...
The Sand Tray
Summary
The aim of this paper has been to draw attention to ways in which the Lowenfeld World Technique has been used or studied in the last twenty years since the earlier account ...
