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

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910817286203321
• Autore: Lowenfeld Margaret
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Chicago : , : Sussex Academic Press, , 2014
• ISBN: 1-78284-027-3
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (418 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): Hood-WilliamsJohn; UrwinCathy
• Disciplina: 618.928914
• Soggetti: Behavior disorders in children - Treatment; Child psychotherapy; Developmental psychology
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: <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.