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Expressing the Shape and Colour of Personality: Using Lowenfeld Mosaics in Psychotherapy and Cross-Cultural Research
Therese Mei-Yau Woodcock
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Description for Expressing the Shape and Colour of Personality: Using Lowenfeld Mosaics in Psychotherapy and Cross-Cultural Research
Paperback. Num Pages: 224 pages, 80 colour mosaics. BIC Classification: JMC; JMS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 246 x 172 x 15. Weight in Grams: 602.
This book contains the distillation of the author's 35 years' experience of using Lowenfeld Mosaics and Lowenfeld practice in the treatment of unhappy and disturbed children, in the investigation of children' acculturation to alien cultures, and in working with the deaf. Through case studies, 80 colour mosaics made by children and adults are used to illuminate Lowenfeld's theories. Mosaics are one of several non-verbal techniques invented by Lowenfeld to enable children to express their thoughts and feelings directly without having to find words. The circumvention of language attracted Mosaics to the notice of social anthropologists, such as Margaret Mead, looking ... Read more
This book contains the distillation of the author's 35 years' experience of using Lowenfeld Mosaics and Lowenfeld practice in the treatment of unhappy and disturbed children, in the investigation of children' acculturation to alien cultures, and in working with the deaf. Through case studies, 80 colour mosaics made by children and adults are used to illuminate Lowenfeld's theories. Mosaics are one of several non-verbal techniques invented by Lowenfeld to enable children to express their thoughts and feelings directly without having to find words. The circumvention of language attracted Mosaics to the notice of social anthropologists, such as Margaret Mead, looking ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Liverpool, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781845190903
SKU
V9781845190903
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99-27
About Therese Mei-Yau Woodcock
Therese Woodcock worked as a librarian and a school teacher before training as a child psychotherapist at Dr Lowenfeld's Institute of Child Psychology.. She worked for 25 years in Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services in the NHS. She has taught at Cambridge and Middlesex Universities, where she is Director of an MSc Course in Lowenfeld Projective Play Therapy.
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