Expressing the shape and colour of personality : using Lowenfeld mosaics in psychotherapy and cross-cultural research / Thérèse Mei-Yau Woodcock.

Brighton [England] ; Portland, Oregon : Sussex Academic Press, 2006.

xiv, 223 pages : colour illustrations ; 25 cm

Meet Adam -- Telling my story with shapes and colours -- The Lowenfeld Mosaic language of shape and colour -- The shape and colour of personality -- Working therapeutically with the Lowenfeld Mosaics -- Mirror, mirror on the wall : the psychotherapist's response -- Lowenfeld Mosaic language development and the personality in action -- Personality in action I: working with adolescents -- Personality in action II: working with children -- The use of Mosaics as an assessment tool -- Two contrasting styles of working through similar presenting problems -- The touchstone of experience and expression : Mosaics made by pre-lingually deaf persons -- Cross-cultural research with Mosaics -- Mosaics, culture and the implications for interpersonal understanding -- Our bodies, our feelings, ourselves and Lowenfeld's theory of E -- Our thoughts, our feelings, ourselves and Lowenfeld's theory of protosystem thinking -- Endings and postscript : my personal experience of the Mosaic process.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-215) and index.