title: Chronic encopresis: a system based psychodynamic approach.
abstract: A successful method used in treating a series of five cases of chronic encopresis is reported. The method is a system based approach, taking into account the typically underlying hostile mother-child psychodynamics accompanying encopresis.
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D002668:Child Rearing; D002908:Chronic Disease; D003717:Denial, Psychological; D004688:Encopresis / Q000628:therapy*; D006791:Hostility; D006801:Humans; D007207:Individuation; D008297:Male; D008425:Maternal Behavior; D009034:Mother-Child Relations; D011613:Psychotherapy; D012201:Reward; D013597:Systems Analysis