Comment on “Parent‐Infant Psychotherapy and Psychoanalytic Treatment: Contradiction or Mutual Inspiration?” by Christiane Ludwig‐Körner

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Novick J, Kelli‐Novick K. Parent work in analysis: children, adolescent and adults, part one: the evaluation phase. Paper presented at the fall meeting of the APA, New York, 1998.

Selma Fraiberg, in addition to the insight oriented interventions, has described another three types of therapeutic interventions in infant‐mother therapy: brief interventions, developmental guidance, supportive treatment as well as concrete assistance in everyday problems. The combination and integration of these interventions is better suited to an attachment theory framework rather than the psychoanalytic framework from which they are derived. In a profile analysing the proportions between the various verbalisation types of the therapist, Cramer (10) demonstrates that therapeutic interventions (comprehending, explaining, confronting, interpreting) make up less than a fourth of the overall verbalisations of the therapist.)