Child psychotherapy, war, and the normal child : selected papers of Margaret Lowenfeld

"Throughout her long and innovative life, Margaret Lowenfeld emphasized the development of new forms of communication with children, especially devoting herself to the diagnosis of troubled children By understanding and using the tools she developed, we can experience, and so partake of, her insights." From the Introduction by Margaret Mead, world renowned anthropologist and author of Coming of Age in Samoa, to Margaret Lowenfeld's Understanding Children's Sandplay Front Cover Title Page Half Title Copyright Contents Acknowledgements Part One: Margaret Lowenfeld by Cathy Urwin 1 Introduction 2 Growing up through Culture Children of Two Nations Medical Training through the First World War Further Experience of War Medical Research in the Community 3 The Foundation of the Children's Clinic, 1927-31 Practical Beginnings New Premises and an Institutional Structure From Research to Psychotherapy Observation and Facilitation of Play and Communication Further Expansions The Experiment Evaluated 4 Inauguration and Development of the Institute of Child Psychology,1931-9 Theories of Play Philosophical and Sociocultural Foundations Neurosis, Normality and Creativity The Theory of the Protosystem 5 Impact and Aftermath of the Second World War Psychology, Culture and Political Systems Post-War Reconstruction Developments in Child Psychotherapy in Britain Theoretical Developments and their Relation to Psychoanalysis Further Research into Culture and Education The Last Years 6 Retrospective Editors' Note Part Two: Selected Papers 7 The Background in Research Organization and the Rheumatic Child [1927] Researches in Lactation (with Sibyl Taite Widdows) [1928] 8 From Medicine to Child Psychology A New Approach to the Problem of Psychoneurosis in Childhood [1931] Psychogenic Factors in Chronic Disease in Childhood [1934] 9 The Needfor a New Method in the Treatment of Emotionally Disturbed Children A Thesis Concerning the Fundamental Structure of the Mento-Emotional Processesin Children [1937] The World Pictures of Children: A Method of Recording and Studying Them [1939] Discussion 10 Theoretical Concepts Developed Direct Projective Therapy [1944] The Nature of the Primary System [1948] 11 Questions of Therapeutic Technique Principles of Psychotherapy Applied to the Situation of the Withdrawn Child [1951] The Structure of Transference [1954] 12 Later Concerns The Adolescent'S Search for Identity [1966] Communication with Children [1967] Note on the Dr Margaret Lowenfeld Trust Bibliography Index Back Cover Part I is an extended biography of Margaret Lowenfeld. Part II contains examples of her contributions to paediatric medical research, psychological theory, and psychotherapeutic technique.