Gravity and Creation of Self An Exploration of Self Representations Using Spatial Concepts

Name: Gravity and Creation of Self An Exploration of Self Representations Using Spatial Concepts
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ISBN: 9781853025570

ISBN-10: 1853025577

ISBN-13: 9781853025570

Edition: 1998

Authors: Elizabeth Burford

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Gravity and the Creation of Self explores how physical structures that children create in play reflect their own inner emotional landscape. Elizabeth Burford focuses on these physical expressions of the internal processesand their application in psychotherapy, with particular reference to the pioneering work of the child psychotherapist Margaret Lowenfield. Lowenfield developed two techniques suitable for working with children: the World technique, where children use sand trays and miscellaneous objects to build their own environments, and the Mosaic technique, in which multi-coloured shapes are used to create patterns that can be analysed.Burford argues that our early strategies for…

Book details

List price: $38.95
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Publication date: 6/1/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 160
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English



Introduction



Gravity and the upright position



James: A case study exploring difficulties in establishing the self as an individual amongst others



The development of wholeness



Jackie: A fuller case study



Difficulties over autonomy and a sense of direction



Energy, power and access to resources



Gravity and social forces



A Piaget-type experimental to test shape constancy


References


Subject Index


Author Index