The Child Patient and the Therapeutic Process: A Psychoanalytic Developmental Object Relations Approach

About this book

This book is a narrative of a case as presented in supervision. Every week the therapist recounts her sessions with her young patient a girl of six named Cleo who is suffering from intense fear. The fear is invasive and unrelenting and the little girl is engaged in a desperate struggle to master it but she fails over and over again. Throughout these chapters the theoretical framework remains the fundamental gauge and guide-the compass of the treatment. The therapists growing ability to harness the richness and organization it provides is shared with the reader.