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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 for tools for cross-cultural research. The author gives a detailed account of how to set about using Mosaics in a clinical setting, how to introduce them to a young person, and how to discuss the resultant creation. The wide range of case studies presented includes the use of Mosaics to study the degree of comparative acculturation of samples of 12-year old Chinese children, in mainland China, London, and San Francisco.
…Thérèse Woodcock has taught the use of Mosaics to a wide range of professionals who work with children – child psychotherapists and psychiatrists, paediatric social workers, paediatric occupational therapists, speech and language therapists, play therapists, guardians, specialist nurses, workers with the deaf, among others. Expressing the Shape and Colour of Personality offers an opportunity to anyone working professionally with children or young people to benefit from her unrivalled experience.
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Illustrations and Tables vii
Foreword by Ian Goodyer x
Preface xiii
Acknowledgements xv
1 Meet Adam 1
2 Telling my story with shapes and colours 5
3 The Lowenfeld Mosaic language of shape and colour 11
4 The shape and colour of personality 16
5 Working therapeutically with Lowenfeld Mosaics 21
6 Mirror, mirror on the wall: the psychotherapist’s response
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7 Lowenfeld Mosaic language development and the personality
in action 35
8 Personality in Action I: working with adolescents 52
9 Personality in Action II: working with children 62
10 The use of Mosaics as an assessment tool 79
11 Two contrasting styles of working through similar presenting
problems 88
12 The touchstone of experience and expression: Mosaics made
by two pre-lingually
deaf persons 110
13 Cross-cultural research with Mosaics 126
14 Mosaics, culture and the implications for interpersonal
understanding 145
15 Our bodies, ourselves and Lowenfeld’s theory of E 163
16 Our thoughts, our feelings, ourselves and Lowenfeld’s theory
of Protosystem Thinking 170
17 Endings and postscript: my personal experience of the Mosaic
process 180
Appendices
1 Guidelines for using Lowenfeld Mosaics with individuals
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2 Brief guidelines for recording a Mosaic session 190
3 Guidelines for using Lowenfeld Mosaics with deaf people
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4 Brief guidelines for using Lowenfeld Mosaics for
cross-cultural research 197
5 Cross-cultural Mosaic research response forms used in the
research: (a) from Guangzhou, China; (b) from San Francisco,
USA;(c) comparative data 199
Further reading 211
References 213
Index 216
How to obtain Lowenfield Mosaic Sets and books by Dr Margaret
Lowenfeld 226
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978-1-84519-090-3 |
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240 pp. / 246 x 171 mm |
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February 2006 |
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Sewn binding with 80 colour mosaics |
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£45.00 / $67.50 |
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