THE BODY IN CHILD ANALYSIS.

This article focuses on psychic equivalents and the language of child psychotherapy. The therapist uses the child's own words for urine, faeces and other parts of the body, as well as for sexual intercourse, in order to communicate with him as directly as possible about his instinctual, body experiences and the fantasies around them. Therapists often deals with play, elaborating fantasies that stem from the period of infant development when fantasy and body sensations and functions are experienced as the same thing.