‘Expressing the Shape and Colour of Personality: using Lowenfeld Mosaics in Psychotherapy and Cross-cultural Research’ by Thérèse Mei-Yau Woodcock
(ISBN 1 84519 090 4.)
This is the first new book on Lowenfeld techniques and theory for many years.

Thérèse Woodcock trained under Dr Margaret Lowenfeld and has taught the use of Lowenfeld Mosaics to a wide range of professionals who work with children : child psychotherapists and psychiatrists, paediatric occupational therapists, social workers, speech and language therapists, and specialist nurses.

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 of using Mosaics and Lowenfeld practice in the treatment of unhappy and disturbed children, in the investigation of children's acculturation to alien cultures, and in working with the deaf.

Mosaics are one of the non-verbal techniques invented by Margaret Lowenfeld to enable children to express their thoughts and feelings directly without having to find words. Mosaics provide objective evidence of movement in thoughts and feelings, and so are of great interest to those seeking to develop evidenced-based clinical practice in psychotherapy. The circumvention of language also 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 (including the deaf), and how to discuss the resultant creation. The wide range of case studies presented (comprising 90 colour mosaics) 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.

Available from Sussex Academic Press, Brighton, UK