A Child Analysis from Childhood into Adolescence: Elements of Therapeutic Action at Different Developmental Stages

ABSTRACT

This paper describes a psychoanalytic process that took place over a 10-year period, and provides a platform for consideration of the technical challenges of analytic work at different development phases. The case also demonstrates the emergence of the capability for transference and the nature of analytic work prior to the development of that capacity, as well as the vicissitudes of analytic work with children who have experienced severe early maltreatment.

KEYWORDS:

• Child psychoanalysis
• transference
• countertransference
• resistance
• child abuse

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Sydney Anderson

Sydney Anderson, Ph.D. is a psychoanalyst who practices in Bloomington, Indiana. She is a faculty member of the Cincinnati Psychoanalytic Institute, where she is a Child Supervising Analyst and an Adult Training and Supervising Analyst.