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Child versus adult psychoanalysis: Two processes or one?
- Source :
- International Journal of Psychoanalysis; Dec2009, Vol. 90 Issue 6, p1255-1276, 22p
- Publication Year :
- 2009
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Abstract
- Child analysis continues to be seen as a different technique from adult analysis because children are still involved in a developmental process and because the primary objects continue to play active roles in their lives. This paper argues that this is a false dichotomy. An extended vignette of the analysis of a latency-aged girl is used to demonstrate that the psychoanalytic process that develops in child analysis is structurally the same as that in adult analysis. Both revolve around the analysis of resistance and transference and use both to promote knowledge of the patient’s mind at work. And both techniques formulate interventions based on the analyst’s appraisal of the patient’s mental organization. It is hoped that stressing the essential commonality of both techniques will promote the development of an overarching theory of psychoanalytic technique. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- CHILD psychotherapy
OLDER people
PATIENTS
PSYCHIATRIC treatment
PSYCHOANALYSIS
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00207578
- Volume :
- 90
- Issue :
- 6
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- International Journal of Psychoanalysis
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 45671163
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1745-8315.2009.00212.x