Child psychotherapy, war and the normal child : selected papers of Margaret Lowenfeld / edited by Cathy Urwin and John Hood-Williams.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lowenfeld, Margaret.

Contributor:

Hood-Williams, John.

Urwin, Cathy.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Behavior disorders in children--Treatment.

Behavior disorders in children.

Child psychotherapy.

Developmental psychology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (418 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chicago : Sussex Academic Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

<P style=""MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"" class=MsoNormal>Essential reading for anyone those involved in the psychology of children, this work details how Margaret Lowenfeld developed new forms of communication with children-primarily through the use of play and specifically through sand play-allowing psychotherapists to locate and address behavioral problems resulting from trauma, especially as from the result of war.

Contents:

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,1931-9Theories 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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed November 20, 2013).

ISBN:

1-78284-027-3

OCLC:

865844134