title: Forging a transference relationship with a self-destructive preschooler.
abstract: A three-and-a-half-year-old boy was referred for treatment because of his inability to engage adequately in school activities and his absorption in fantasy and episodically charged and homicidal wishes. A few months after therapy was initiated, the boy revealed fantasies of a self-destructive nature. Through the development of the transference relationship, the patient was able to elaborate further, understand the implications of such fantasies, and validate his perceptions regarding feelings that were until then suppressed and isolated.
authors.affiliation: Cornell University Medical Center Westchester Division, White Plains, N.Y. 10605.
authors.forename: P V
authors.initials: PV
authors.lastname: Trad
mesh_terms: D002675:Child, Preschool; D003379:Countertransference; D004325:Dreams; D005201:Fantasy; D005391:Firesetting Behavior / Q000628:therapy; D006801:Humans; D007062:Identification, Psychological; D008297:Male; D011573:Psychoanalytic Interpretation; D012652:Self Mutilation / Q000628:therapy*; D014167:Transference, Psychology