Understanding Children's Sandplay: Lowenfeld's World Technique

Lowenfeld realized that “Play” was the medium through which children worked out their emotional conflicts. She recognized that it was a cognitive process which could be analyzed (in a non-Freudian way) to understand and deal with behavior problems and also perhaps help them to develop. She developed the then new concept of non-verbal communication, and methods and tools for using “Play” as therapy and as a therapeutic and analytical tool. This work follows her classic book Play in Childhood which was published in 1935.