Psychoanalytic Approach to Child Development

Child psychoanalytic psychotherapy

development as well as free play being a focus of interpretation. concepts of transference, countertransference, working alliance and negative therapeutic reaction. Since Freud, multiple psychoanalytic paradigms have developed, including Kleinian psychology and self-psychology. While Freud emphasised an energy discharge point of view within a natural science framework, more recent work has also...

Short-Term Psychoanalytic Child Therapy

Few studies report treatment outcome for early childhood internalizing disorders following psychotherapy, especially psychodynamic techniques. We aimed to investigate effectiveness of a novel, developmentally appropriate, short-term psychodynamic treatment program for 4to 10-year-olds with anxiety disorders in an outpatient setting. We conducted a quasi-experimental wait-list controlled study. ...

Life cycle approach to child development.

non-corrective approach to pronunciation

the aim of this study has been to find answers for the following questions: 1. what is the effect of immediate correction on students pronunciation errors? 2. what would be the effect of teaching the more rgular patterns of english pronunciation? 3. is there any significant difference between the two methods of dealing with pronuciation errore, i. e., correction and the teaching of the regular ...

Psychoanalytic Theory and Infant Development

The experience of psychoanalytic clinical work with adults has long supported the conviction that adult patients' current ways of func­ tion4lg have a complex history dating back to early childhood and indeed to infancy. This gave rise to an interest among psychoanalysts in early development. This interest was at first pursued mainly through clinical work with adults and children, but from the ...