margaret lowenfeld archive

The Margaret Lowenfeld Archive largely consists of material relevant to the life and work of the Child Psychiatrist, Dr Margaret Lowenfeld, 1890-1973. It also contains much that is relevant to the history of child psychiatry, paediatrics and child guidance as a whole.

The material is organised on the basis of a coding scheme developed from a system originally designed by Ville Andersen, Margaret Lowenfeld's colleague in research and clinical work from the 1950s until Margaret Lowenfeld's death. When Ville Andersen herself died in 1986, futher material was made available. We are also grateful to friends and colleagues of the late Kate MacSorley, clinical psychologist at the Institute of Child Psychology from the mid nineteen sixties, for placing photographs, clinical records and research material with the archive. Particular thanks are due to Elaine Sharland for sorting through unclassified material.
 
Cathy Urwin, Margaret Lowenfeld Research Fellow, 1981-1990.

Location

The  Archive has recently been transferred to the Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine (Search reference PP/LOW at archives.wellcome.ac.uk) from  the Cambridge University Centre for Family Research. It is in the process of being incorporated into the Wellcome Library retrieval system but in the meantime can still be searched with the old catalogue. This is available as a pdf file which you can download here.

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