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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 ...

The Emotional Life of the Child

By Margaret Lowenfeld At the end of the last chapter we found that the child’s position is a reversal of the adult. Whereas the adult is convinced that the material things of...

The Training of Child Psychotherapists

By Margaret Lowenfeld The Institute of Child Psychology was founded in 1928, under the name of the Children’s Clinic, at 10 Telford Road, London, W.10. Its purpose was to pro...

The Danger and Value of Curiosity

By Margaret Lowenfeld I feel it a great privilege to have the opportunity of speaking after two such excellent, fitting and really illuminating addresses, because my task is made ...

Parents and Children

By Margaret Lowenfeld Quite a number of people are now beginning to realize that the question of emotional development lies somewhere near the real reason of the failure in educati...

History of the Clinic

By Margaret Lowenfeld The Clinic was opened by Dr Margaret Lowenfeld on 25th October, 1928, 1’n rooms on the ground floor in the house owned by the North Kensington WomenR...

The Use Of Lowenfeld Techniques In Individual Assessment

by Thérèse Woodcock Today’s subject is particularly reliant on your input: either due to recent work practices having changed or because your own work is not being covered by t...

Child Psychotherapy and Margaret Lowenfeld

By Thérèse Woodcock Exploring Margaret Lowenfeld’s view of psychotherapy, particularly psychotherapy with children.

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...

The Mosaic Test

By Margaret Lowenfeld The Mosaic test arose out of a desire to find means through which individual difference between person and person could be expressed in a standardised medium....

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 ...

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...

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...

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 ...

Margaret Lowenfeld Day Conference

By Margaret Lowenfeld There is a spectrum of interest in play. An outer world there are outcome measures. Competence Coping Competence is domain specific. Capacity for effective ...

Children in English Culture

By Margaret Lowenfeld To form a relevant pattern, observations concerning a culture must emanate from a fixed standpoint whose general orientation is already known and against whic...

Helping the Child to Understand

By Margaret Lowenfeld In helping the child to understand, there are three points to bear in mind. A child comes into a world which is for his purposes peopled with three forces: ...

World Created from Toys in a Sand Tray

By Margaret Lowenfeld What you see in this case has never been displayed before. This treasure from a museum collection tells a story that hasn’t been told until now. But whi...

Playing and Learning with Poleidoblocs

Poleidoblocs are the coloured building bricks introduced by Dr Margaret Lowenfeld some 55 years ago, yet still sustain their popularity in many primary school classrooms. Many of t...

The Age of Danger and Delight

By Margaret Lowenfeld The second stage in development, that which comes between infancy and school years, is the period in life when sensations are at their keenest and emotions at...
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