Understanding Children's Sandplay: Lowenfeld's World Technique

Author: Margaret LowenfeldPublisher: Sussex Academic PressPaperback:ISBN 10: 1845190823ISBN 13: 978-1845190828Lowenfeld realized that "Play" was the medium through which children worked out their emotional conflicts. She recognized that it was a cognitive process which could be analyzed (in a non-Freudian way) to understand and deal with behavior problems and also perhaps help them to develop. She developed the then new concept of non-verbal communication, and methods and tools for using "Play" as therapy and as a therapeutic and analytical tool. This work follows her classic book Play in Childhood which was published in 1935. Review “Throughout her long and innovative life, Margaret Lowenfeld emphasised 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.”  —Margaret Mead, author, Coming of Age in Samoa“Margaret Lowenfeld left an indelible mark . . . her unique understanding of play and the development of the World Technique have caught the imagination of countless practitioners and researchers, who have absorbed her methods into their work, often without knowledge of her innovative contribution.”  —Rie Rogers Mitchell and Harriet S. Friedman, authors, Sandplay: Past, Present and Future About the Author Margaret Lowenfeld was a pediatrician who became a pioneer of child psychology and psychotherapy who developed several educational techniques that are still widely used today.