Psychothérapies et thérapies psychomotrices avec des enfants et des adolescents: indications, spécificités, différences

Abstract: This paper was initially presented during the scientific workshop of the French society for child and adolescent psychiatry and allied professions (SFPEADA), devoted to psychomotricity and its current bonds with child and adolescent psychiatry (Paris, September 29, 2005). The authors are a child and adolescent psychiatrist, using daily psychoanalytical psychotherapies in a universitary public hospital and two psychomotricians, who work in a child and adolescent public department, in a private activity and in a specialized institute (therapeutic, educational and teaching institute or ITEP). They present here the results of their clinical practices, exchanges and thoughts about a complex and discussed subject, which touches in more than one way with the bases of our clinical and therapeutic practices with children and adolescents: how do we choose the differential indications between psychotherapies and psychomotor therapies? [Copyright &y& Elsevier]