TRENDS IN THERAPY: THE EVOLUTION AND PRESENT STATUS OF TREATMENT APPROACHES TO BEHAVIOR AND PERSONALITY PROBLEMS: II. Child Analysis

The analysis of children should be limited to those suffering from severe neuroses. Perhaps for the time being it may be well to limit this still further to those children who have failed to respond to general measures, such as lessening the emotional tension surrounding the child in the home and in...

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Published in:American journal of orthopsychiatry 1939-10, Vol.9 (4), p.707-712
Main Author: Lippman, Hyman S.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Emotional Control
Human
Neurosis
Personality Disorders
Treatment Outcomes
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Summary:The analysis of children should be limited to those suffering from severe neuroses. Perhaps for the time being it may be well to limit this still further to those children who have failed to respond to general measures, such as lessening the emotional tension surrounding the child in the home and in the school; removal from an atmosphere that encourages the continuation of the neurotic pattern, or lessening the neurosis of the parent. Some child analysts attempt to limit their treatment to the child of parents who have been analyzed. The primary object of analyzing the child, as in the case of the adult, is to lessen suffering through getting at underlying causes. The suffering is not always limited to the child, and frequently it is the environment that is disturbed to such an extent that child analysis is required. The goal of treatment is to prevent the child's reacting in a neurotic manner to difficult reality and, if successful, the abili ty to accept reali ty should persist. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2019 APA, all rights reserved)
ISSN:0002-9432
1939-0025
DOI:10.1111/j.1939-0025.1939.tb05640.x