title: The little riddle maker. A case presentation.
abstract: This report describes the intensive psychoanalytic psychotherapy of a 7-year-old girl diagnosed as suffering from childhood schizophrenia. The treatment, lasting for 3 years, took place in an inpatient setting and followed a conflict-resolution model. The treatment process revealed an unusually orderly unfolding of a psychosexual zonal configuration: oral, anal, and phallic-oedipal. The child's style of communicating with her therapist by way of riddles is illustrated and examined in relation to her self-other experience in each emerging psychosexual phase.
authors.affiliation: Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Maryland.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Graves
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D003142:Communication; D005260:Female; D006760:Hospitalization; D006801:Humans; D011369:Professional-Patient Relations; D011575:Psychoanalytic Therapy; D011606:Psychosexual Development; D012561:Schizophrenia, Childhood / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy*