The role of fantasy in the treatment of a severely disturbed child.
This case study demonstrates the psychodynamic role of a system of fantasies that dominated the emotional life of a severely disturbed child. Transformations in these fantasies revealed her development of a more stable sense of reality and the capacity for object relations.
Kaufman
A M
AM
Postgraduate Education Program, Institute for Psychoanalysis, Chicago.
D001010:Anxiety, Separation / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy*; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005201:Fantasy; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D009034:Mother-Child Relations; D010553:Personality Development; D011575:Psychoanalytic Therapy / Q000379:methods*