title: The boy from outer space. An exploration of psychotic catastrophe.
abstract: This is an account of the initial stages in the analysis of Morton, a latency-age boy. Morton is an unusually interesting case for the exploration of fantasy, to which "we must look for the study of early mental phenomena because phantasy is the lingua franca of that period" (Grotstein, 1977, p. 412).
authors.affiliation: Brighton Health Authority, East Sussex, England.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Macdonald
mesh_terms: D001883:Borderline Personality Disorder / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy; D002648:Child; D005201:Fantasy; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010553:Personality Development; D010989:Play Therapy; D011574:Psychoanalytic Theory; D011575:Psychoanalytic Therapy; D011618:Psychotic Disorders / Q000523:psychology* / Q000628:therapy