Separation-individuation and transitional objects in a four-year-old psychotic child
Beratis, S.; Miller, R.; Galenson, E.
International Journal of Psychoanalytic PsychoTherapy 9: 561-582
1982
ISSN/ISBN: 0091-0600 PMID: 7152829 Document Number: 5737
A segment of the treatment of one psychotic boy in a therapeutic nursery setting is described, focusing on the therapeutic interventions that facilitated progress as well as the therapeutic difficulties in working with a nonverbal psychotic child. In the course of treatment, pathological phenomena of the separation-individuation process were highlighted. Certain hypotheses regarding both normal and distorted forms of the transitional objects and transitional phenomena are offered, particularly regarding their significance as indicators of developmental progress.
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