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The Modern Child and Toys
By Margaret Lowenfeld
Toys are to a child what a grown-up is represented by his power of speech, his pen, pencil and typewriter, his motor car, his bicycle, his power of acting, co...
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...
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...
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 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 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...
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 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...
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...
Demonstration of Pre-Verbal and Symbolic Thinking
By Margaret Lowenfeld
In this demonstration are presented:
Actual Worlds:
Four actual Worlds (A-D), as made by children and reset-up from the working diagrams recorded at the sessi...
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 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...
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 ...
On Protosystem Thinking & Lowenfeld Projective Play Therapy
by Thérese Woodcock on work by Margaret Lowenfeld
Before we come to consider Lowenfeld’s concept of Protosystem Thinking, it may be useful to consider the more general, idea of ...
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...
Mosaic Test: Predicting School Readiness in School Children
Dr Margaret Lowenfeld
The aim of the present study was to determine whether or not the Lowenfeld Mosaic test might prove useful in predicting school readiness or unreadiness in chi...
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: ...