Child versus adult psychoanalysis

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

Developmental psychology · Epistemology · Girl · Psychiatry · Psychoanalysis · Psychoanalytic theory · Psychological intervention · Resistance (ecology · Vignette · Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology · Philosophy · Psychological Testing and Assessment · Psychology · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications · Social Psychology

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